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Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract
; 2024 Jul 05.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38971688
ABSTRACT
Although a significant cost, genotyping an entire population offers many benefits, many of which can reduce the workload and effort in decision-making on farm. As well as providing more accurate predictions of the genetic merit of individuals (and by extension their expected performance), national genotyping strategies enable complete traceability from the cradle to the grave as well as parentage discovery. The information available per animal aids more informed breeding and management decisions, including mating advice, and determining the optimal role and eventual fate of each animal.