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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 67 No. 10 2429-2435
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Heritability of Lactation Cell Count Measures and Their Relationships with Milk Yield and Composition in Ayrshire Cows

H. G. Monardes, J. F. Hayes and J. E. Moxley

Department of Animal Science, Macdonald College of McGill University, 21,111 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada H9X 1CO

ABSTRACT

Lactation measures of somatic cell count were calculated from monthly test-day observations (transformed to a log scale) taken between February 1977 and February 1981 in Ayrshire cows in 115 herds enrolled in the Quebec Dairy Herd Analysis Service. Analyses were separate within three groups: 1137 first lactations, representing 37 sires; 1728 second and later lactations, representing 57 sires; and 2510 all lactations, representing 74 sires. Heritabilities of lactation measures were estimated from sire and error variances obtained by iterative minimum norm quadratic unbiased estimation. Heritabilities ranged from .09 to .16 in first lactations and averaged .09 for the group of second and later lactations and .07 for all lactations. Genetic correlations of lactation measures of cell count with milk, fat, protein yield, fat percent, and protein percent averaged .36, .68, .74, .38, and .45, in first lactations; –.97, –.27, –.56, .52, and .03 in second and later lactations; and –.50, –.54, –.73, .43, and .19 in all lactations. Respective average phenotypic correlations were low and negative for milk, fat, protein yield, and fat percent and low and positive for protein percent.






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