Methane and carbon dioxide emissions in Australian Angus – past and present

Title
Methane and carbon dioxide emissions in Australian Angus – past and present
Publication Date
2025
Author(s)
Madsen, M D
Duff, C J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3072-1736
Email: cduff2@myune.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:cduff2
Samaraweera, M
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8644-8345
Email: asamara2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:asamara2
Mowbray, L A
Hergenhan, R
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9783-4906
Email: rhergen4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rhergen4
Granleese, T
Bird-gardiner, L
Arthur, P F
Clark, S A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8605-1738
Email: sclark37@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sclark37
Editor
Editor(s): Hatcher, Sue
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)
Place of publication
Armidale, Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/71021
Abstract

Methane production (MP) and carbon dioxide production (CP) records have been collected on Australian Angus cattle in both past and current projects. The historic records consisted of animals measured in respiration chamber (n=887 animals) and using Greenfeed Emission Monitor (GEM, n=318 animals), while recent records were collected using GEM units (n=892 animals). The aims of this study were to estimate variance components and genetic relationships between emission traits based on historic respiration chamber records, current GEM records, and combined current and historic GEM records. The heritabilities of MP were similar in the respiration chamber (0.39, SE 0.10), current GEM (0.38, SE 0.11), and combined current and historic GEM (0.36, SE 0.08) datasets. The heritability of CP was higher in the respiration chamber dataset (0.49-0.50, SE 0.26) than the current GEM (0.38, SE 0.10) or the combined current and historic GEM (0.33, SE 0.08) datasets. Low to moderate positive genetic correlations were observed between the respiration chamber records and either the current or combined current-historic GEM datasets. The large SEs were likely due to the relatively small data sizes, particularly for the respiration chamber CP records (263 records). The results indicated that including both historic and current records may be beneficial for the estimation of genetic parameters of emissions in Australian Angus cattle.

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Citation
Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, v26: 134-137, v.26, p. 134-137
ISSN
1328-3227
Start page
134
End page
137

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