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Crossbreeding effects on growth and efficiency in beef cow–calf systems: evaluation of Angus, Caracu, Hereford and Nelore breed direct, maternal and heterosis effects

The objective of this study was to determine breed additive and heterosis effects on growth curves, total milk yield (TMY), calf weaning weight (WW), predicted energy intake (EI), and cow efficiency (CE) of purebred and crossbred beef cows raised in Southern Brazil. The data were from 175 purebred a...

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Autores principales: Mendonça, Fábio S, MacNeil, Michael D, Leal, Willian S, Azambuja, Rodrigo C C, Rodrigues, Pedro F, Cardoso, Fernando F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32704892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txz096