Abdulkerim DİLER, Mete YANAR, Olcay GÜLER, Recep AYDIN, Rıdvan KOÇYİĞİT

Appraisal of Linear Type Traits in Simmental Cows Reared on High Altitude of Eastern Turkey

The study was carried out to investigate the magnitude of nongenetic factors influencing linear type traits and to estimatephenotypic correlations among these traits in Simmental cows. The16 linear type traits were recorded for 148 Simmental cows rearedin a private farm in Eastern Turkey. A statistical model used in thisresearch included fixed effects of stage of lactation, parity, season attime of classification and classifier. The age at time of classificationwas included to the statistical model as co-variable. Parity, stage oflactation, season at time of classification and classifier effect wassignificant (P

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