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A note on estimates of the repeatability of weaning weight in beef cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

J. B. Kilkenny
J. B. Kilkenny
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The Beef Recording Association, 55 Minster Street, Reading
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Profitable beef production in stickler herds depends upon each cow within the herd producing a heavy, well-grown calf every year. The weight of the weaned calf has a large effect on the producer's income. The pedigree beef breeder therefore needs to select female lines within his herd which produce calves above the herd average weight at weaning.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , November 1968 , pp. 483 - 486
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1968

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