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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 59 No. 3 527-531
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Predicting Future Type Proofs of Young Holstein Bulls from Pedigree Information1

W. W. McNeill2, W. E. Vinson, J. M. White, and R. H. Kliewer3

Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061

ABSTRACT

Absrtract: First-available, age adjusted classification scores of 302,921 Holstein cows scored between September, 1967, and June, 1974, were used to compute pedigree evaluations and type proofs for sires in artificial insemination. The intensity of pedigree selection for overall type score was equivalent to that expected from truncation selection on their type performance alone of the upper 15% and 2% of normally distributed populations of males and females. Optimum weights by multiple regression for predicting sons' type proofs from pedigree information were compared to theoretically expected weights. Empirical weights for sire and maternal grandsire information were less than theoretically expected while those associated with information from the dam were greater than expected. Empirical correlations between sons' type proofs and pedigree information were 76% or more of their theoretically expected values. The correlation between sons' type proofs and information from the dam was greater than expected. Selections of young bulls for progeny testing based on their pedigree evaluations for type should be effective preliminary selection although less effective than expected.

FOOTNOTES

1 Published with the approval of the Director of the Division of Animal Sciences.

2 University of Tennessee, West Tennessee Experiment Station, Jackson 38301

3 Director, Program Development and Research, Holstein-Friesian Association of America, Brattleboro, VT 05301.






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