Factors affecting weaning weight of the small east African shorthorn zebu, Boran, Swahili, Boran x e.A.S.Z, Swahili x e.A.S.Z, Friesian x boran and Friesian x Swahili cattle at Kiboko and Bachuma Kenya

Abstract

The variation of weaning weights of 1054 calves was analysed by the least squares method for feeding constants for non-orthogonal data to estimate the effect of genotype, sex, year of birth, season of birth, age of dam, birth, weaning age and some two-way interactions of the main effects of weaning weights of beef calves. the data were collected at Kiboko and Bachuma Range Stations from 1971 through 1976...............