Cross breeding with dairy breeds to improve performance, health fertility and longevity
In the past few decades, the focus in dairy cattle breeding has been mainly on the production of high volumes of milk. Pure-breeding is used in almost all breeds. Purebred and pedigree breeding has led to a deterioration in animal health parameters and reproduction traits. However, heterosis through crossbreeding has a positive effect on the fitness of the animals.
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R4D
Resilience For Dairy
- Standort
- Europe
- Autoren
- DN - Ole Ulloriaq Lønberg-Jensen
- Zweck
- Communication
- Dissemination
- Education/Training
- Dateityp
- Video
- Größe der Datei
- 143.55 MB
- Erstellt am
- 30-06-2024
- Ursprüngliche Sprache
- Danish
- Offizielle Projekt-Website
- R4D
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Schlüsselwörter
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