... with a within-flock analy-sis, because of the predominant mating system. They generally agreed with the resultsobtained in the other species, in particular in the dairy ... (JE2; ! P the vector of the fixed effects of the year-flock, the year-month, the age at kidding, the birth type (defined as above), the genotype of the dam (Alpine, Saanen ... whichconstitutes a preliminary step for a successful selection for protein, especially since the literature for protein traits has been very sparse in the dairy goat, and in all dairy...