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1 Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre Foulum, P.O. Box 50 DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
2 Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre, Foulum, P.O. Box 50 DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
3 Dept. of Animal Science and Animal Health, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Bülowsvej 13, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
The primary aim of this study was to estimate genetic correlations between dairy character, protein yield, clinical mastitis, and other diseases. Data consisted of first lactation records of Danish Holstein cows calving from 1990 to 1999. After editing, the data included records on 934,639 cows, of which 101,853 were assessed for dairy character, 472,421 for diseases, and 834,993 for protein yield. The disease traits were defined as binary traits in the period from 10 d before to 50 d after calving for clinical mastitis, and from 10 d before to 100 d after calving for diseases other than mastitis. Data were analyzed with a linear sire model using the method of AI-REML. Heritabilities were estimated to be 0.265 for protein yield, 0.261 for dairy character, 0.035 for clinical mastitis, and 0.020 for diseases other than mastitis. Estimates of genetic correlations between protein yield and dairy character, protein yield and clinical mastitis, and protein yield and diseases other than mastitis were 0.38, 0.33, and 0.14. Between the two disease traits, the genetic correlation was 0.24. The genetic correlation between dairy character and clinical mastitis was 0.24. Between dairy character and diseases other than mastitis the genetic correlation was 0.41. Thus, cows with high score for dairy character were more prone to diseases. The genetic correlation between dairy character and the disease traits, when both traits were adjusted for protein yield, was 0.13 for clinical mastitis and 0.39 for diseases other than mastitis. These findings suggest that, dairy character should be given a negative rather than a positive weight in the breeding goal.
Key Words: genetic parameters • dairy character • diseases
Submitted on December 18, 2000
Accepted on August 6, 2001
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