TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting milk yield in sheep used for dairying in Australia
AU - Morrissey, Adam Daniel
AU - Cameron, Alexander William Neil
AU - Caddy, David J
AU - Tilbrook, Alan John
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - It is necessary to identify traits that are simple to measure and correlated with milk yield to select ewes for dairying from existing populations of sheep in Australia. We studied 217 primiparous and 113 multiparous (second parity, n = 51; third parity, n = 40; and fourth parity, n = 22) East Friesian crossbred ewes, for 2 consecutive lactations, that were milked by machine following a period of suckling (24 to 28 d). We measured lamb growth, milk production, milk yield, and residual milk during early lactation (
AB - It is necessary to identify traits that are simple to measure and correlated with milk yield to select ewes for dairying from existing populations of sheep in Australia. We studied 217 primiparous and 113 multiparous (second parity, n = 51; third parity, n = 40; and fourth parity, n = 22) East Friesian crossbred ewes, for 2 consecutive lactations, that were milked by machine following a period of suckling (24 to 28 d). We measured lamb growth, milk production, milk yield, and residual milk during early lactation (
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17954745
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-0302
VL - 90
SP - 5056
EP - 5061
JO - Journal of Dairy Science
JF - Journal of Dairy Science
IS - 11
ER -