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* Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre Foulum, P.O. Box 50 DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
The Danish Agricultural Advisory Centre, Udkaersvej 15, Skejby, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Department of Animal Science and Animal Health, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Bülowsvej 13, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Corresponding author: J. Lassen; e-mail: jan.lassen{at}agrsci.dk.
The aim of this study was to explore the possibilities of using body condition score (BCS) or dairy character (DC) as indicators of mastitis and diseases other than mastitis in first-parity Danish Holsteins. The dataset included 28,948 observations on conformation scores and 365,136 disease observations. The analysis was performed using a multitrait linear sire model. Heritability estimates for BCS and DC were moderate (0.25 and 0.22), and heritability estimates for mastitis and diseases other than mastitis were low (0.038 and 0.022). Between BCS and diseases other than mastitis, the genetic correlation was -0.22, whereas the genetic correlation was -0.16 between BCS and mastitis. The genetic correlation between DC and diseases other than mastitis was 0.43, and between DC and mastitis it was 0.27. The genetic correlation between BCS and DC was -0.61. Residual correlations were close to 0, except between BCS and DC (-0.37). Including DC as an indicator of diseases other than mastitis will increase the accuracy of the predicted breeding value for diseases, especially when the progeny group is small. Using BCS as an additional indicator of diseases did not increase the accuracy. Breeding for less DC will increase resistance to diseases.
Key Words: body condition score • dairy character • diseases • mastitis
Abbreviation key: DC = dairy character, DOM100 = diseases other than mastitis recorded from -10 to 100 d from calving, MS50 = mastitis recorded from -10 to 50 d from calving, BCS
100 = BCS scored before 100 DIM, BCS>100 = BCS scored later than 100 DIM
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