Correlation between breeding values for milk fatty acids and Nordic Total Merit index traits for Danish Holstein and Danish Jersey

ABSTRACT: Milk fatty acid composition is gaining interest in the Danish dairy industry both to develop new dairy products and as a management tool. To be able to implement milk fatty acid (FA) composition in the breeding program, it is important to know the correlations with the traits in the breedi...

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Main Authors: A.J. Buitenhuis, L. Hein, L.P. Sørensen, M. Kargo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-08-01
Series:Journal of Dairy Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030223003466