HIGHLIGHTS
- who: Heather L. Bradford and colleagues from the progress (Kansas State UniversityAgricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service) have published the research: Heifer calving rate is lowly heritable in Hereford cattle, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- how: Data were analyzed with a multiple-trait logistic animal model with a random effect for additive genetics and fixed effects for contemporary group and age at calving.
SUMMARY
Reproductive failure is consistently a top reason for culling beef cows from the herd. Culling young females is very costly to commercial producers because a young female . . .
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