Use of Principal Component Analysis to Combine Genetic Merit for Heat Stress and for Fat and Protein Yield in Spanish Autochthonous Dairy Goat Breeds

We studied the effect of the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) (i.e., the average of temperature and relative humidity registered at meteorological stations) closest to the farms taken during the test day (TD), for total daily protein and fat yields (fpy) of the three main Spanish dairy goats. The da...

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Main Authors: Alberto Menéndez-Buxadera, Eva Muñoz-Mejías, Manuel Sánchez, Juan Manuel Serradilla, Antonio Molina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Animals
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/3/736