INTERRELATION BETWEEN ECONOMICALLY BENEFICIAL CHARACTERS AND LIVE WEIGHT OF HEREFORD COWS IN DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS
The article is focused on the results of studies on the interconnection between economically beneficial characters of Hereford cow-dams and their live weight at different age periods, kept under the conditions of the LLC “Agrofirm “Kalininskaya”, Chelyabinsk region. The low correlation rates between the economically beneficial features in the given population of animals, having been established in the course of studies, point out the impossibility of carrying out indirect selection activities on the base of the indices available.