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Additive direct and maternal breeding values of imported sires in the nucleus flock of a cooperative sheep breeding group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

K. Woodington  and
I. Ap Dewi
K. Woodington
Affiliation:
School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW
I. Ap Dewi
Affiliation:
School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW
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Extract

Members of the CAMDA cooperative group breeding scheme have expressed concern about the breeding values of imported sires, with a suggestion that their breeding value was underestimated. Analyses were conducted to examine changes in estimated breeding values for sires imported into the CAMDA nucleus flock

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2000 , 2000 , pp. 62
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2000

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