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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 49 No. 11 1426-1434
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Selection Practiced Among Dairy Cows. I. Single Lactation Traits

F. R. Allaire1 and C. R. Henderson

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

ABSTRACT

Efficiency of the selection for milk and fat practiced among Holstein cows was measured by comparing the actual selection with that which might have been possible if all removals had been made strictly on yield. The correlation rYp is the efficiency of selection where P is an implicit normally distributed variable upon which actual selections are made and Y is yield. The selection differential and the reduction of variance in the selected population were used to estimate the efficiency of selection for 34,000 lactations made by cows in 464 herds on test continuously from 1957 to 1962. Phenotypic selection (cows surviving to start another lactation) and realized selection (cows represented by daughters) were investigated. Estimates of the efficiency of intraherd-year-season-lactation phenotypic selection, as measured by the selection differential of actual milk deviations, were 40, 32, 27, and 24% for the first four lactations respectively. The corresponding efficiencies for M.E. milk deviations from the herd-mate average were 43, 34, 27, and 25%. The realized standardized selection differentials of actual milk deviations for the four lactations were .16, .14, .15, and .11, respectively. The corresponding phenotypic differentials were .12, .11, .11, and .10, respectively. Selection pressures on milk and fat deviations were similar.

FOOTNOTES

1 Present address: Dairy Science Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.






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