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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 83 No. 9 2131-2138
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Effects of Inbreeding on Production and Survival in Jerseys

J. R. Thompson 1, R. W. Everett 1, and C. W. Wolfe 2

1 Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
2 American Jersey Cattle Association, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-2362

Responses of registered Jersey cows to various levels of inbreeding were examined with pedigree data supplied by the American Jersey Cattle Association and test-day production data from 1970 through 1998 obtained from the Animal Breeding Center at Cornell University. Rate of increase in level of inbreeding is accelerating with time, making it more difficult for producers to make matings that avoid the potentially deleterious effects of inbreeding. Production losses caused by inbreeding were significant and curvilinear for all traits studied except somatic cell linear score, with the greatest losses at higher levels of inbreeding. Inbreeding was found to have the greatest effect on production at early ages and early in lactation. Early onset of the deleterious effects of inbreeding resulted in larger net present value losses than if effects of inbreeding occurred later in the life of an animal. Losses were probably enhanced because of the need to freshen animals as early as possible to maximize net present value returns. Survival decreased as level of inbreeding increased and was likely to have a greater negative impact on the financial health of the dairy enterprise than production losses.

Key Words: inbreeding • milk • milk components • survival

Submitted on September 20, 1999
Accepted on March 2, 2000




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