Reproductive success or failure in four breed groups of beef bulls

The objective of this study was to determine the main causes of failure in bull breeding using a soundness evaluation in Rio Grande do Sul State/Brazil. We evaluated 19,836 bulls from 15 different breeds with ages ranging from two to eight years. The failures of bulls in each step were analyzed by l...

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Main Authors: Sílvio Renato Oliveira Menegassi, Júlio Otávio Jardim Barcellos, Vanessa Peripolli, Eduardo Antunes Dias, João Batista Gonçalves Costa Junior, Maitê de Moraes Vieira, Fernanda Gomes Moojen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia 2015-07-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982015000700240&lng=en&tlng=en