The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Feb/2011
Fabiana Barichello, Maurício Mello de Alencar, Roberto Augusto de Almeida Torres Júnior, Luiz Otávio Campos da Silva
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982011000200008
The effects of calving year and season, property, sex of the calf, feeding regime, age of calf and age of dam at calving, maternal and direct additive effects of Charolais breed, and maternal heterosis effects among Charolais and zebu breeds were evaluated by the method of least squares on economical importance traits such as weight, scrotal circumference and visual scores for slaughter conformation, navel score and hair coat at weaning of the Canchim breed. Data from 12,334 Canchim calves born […]
Keywords: additive effect; beef cattle; environmental effects; heterotic effects