Growth and survival to weaning of crosses of Ayrshire, Brown Swiss and Sahiwal cattle

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1995

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Kahi, A.K.

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Alexander K K

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A total of 1443 records from a private ranch in the coastal lowland. tropics of Kenya were used to estimate the comparative calf performance to weaning of the different crosses of Ayrshire (A), Brown Swiss (B) and Sahiwal (S). Individual and maternal additive and heterotic effects for, and heritabilities of, and correlations among, the preweaning traits were also estimated.

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Kahi, A. K. (1995). Growth and survival to weaning of crosses of Ayrshire, Brown swiss and Sahiwal cattle (Doctoral dissertation, Egerton University).