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Developing a UK Dairy Fertility Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2017
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National dairy records have shown that correlations between production and fertility are generally unfavourable. There has therefore been a genetic downward trend for fertility due to the increase selection pressure on yield and as a genetic problem it requires a genetic solution. The effect of sire genetics on daughter fertility is included in many genetic indices around the world. As part of a DEFRA LINK project to produce an UK fertility index this study estimates genetic parameters and sire predicted transmitting ability (PTAs) for fertility traits in the UK.
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