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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 65 No. 7 1269-1276
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Heritability of Mastitis Score in Pacific Northwest Dairy Herds1

Deborah S. Gonyon2, Dale O. Everson3 and Ross E. Christian

Department of Animal Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow 83843

ABSTRACT

Dairy Herd Improvement Association records of Holsteins in the Pacific Northwest were used to estimate heritabilities and correlations between milk yield, fat yield, fat percentage, and mastitis score. Effects of sire and lactation number were important for all traits except lactation number for fat percentage. Average mastitis score as well as frequency of elevated tests increased with parity.

Paternal half-sister analysis showed that heritabilities of milk yield, fat yield, and fat percentage decreased with age averaging .33, .28, and .47 for first records and .29, .20, and .3 3 for last records. Heritability of mastitis score increased slightly with age averaging .10 for first records and .11 for last records. Milk yield and fat yield showed small genetic correlations of .05 and .07 with mastitis score. Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients were computed between regressed least square estimates for sires derived for six independent sets of daughters. Pearson correlations between mastitis scores of first and last lactations were .19 and .34, whereas corresponding average Spearman correlations were .11 and .29. These low correlations between sire rankings in different data sets correspond closely with the low heritabilities for mastitis score.

FOOTNOTES

1 Published with the approval of the Director of the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station as Research Paper No. 8141.

2 Department of Dairy Science, Ohio State University, Columbus.

3 Department of Applied Statistics.






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