Crossbreeding of Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, and Sahiwal cattle for annual and lifetime milk yield in the lowland tropics of Kenya
Records from 1577 cows borm from 1973 to 1983 on a ranch in lowland Kenya were analyzed for age at first calving, lactation length, lactational milk yield, calving interval, annual milk yield, and, for cows born from 1973 to 1979, number of calvings, productive lifetime in the herd, and lifetime mil...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Elsevier
1994
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/28815 |
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