Estimates of variances due to sire x herd effects for weights of Hereford cattle

Title
Estimates of variances due to sire x herd effects for weights of Hereford cattle
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Meyer, Karin
Editor
Editor(s): Abigail Henderson
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:4458
Abstract
Estimating variances due sire x herd effects requires a large number of sires to be represented in multiple herds, otherwise too much variation between animals is 'picked up' as variance due to sire x herd effects, and heritability estimates are biased downwards. Such bias can be avoided by using only records for progeny of multiple-herd use sires to estimate the additive genetic variance. Estimates of variance components and genetic parameters from analyses of weights of Hereford cattle are presented for herds with high, medium and low proportions of sires used across multiple herds. Results from analyses estimating separate genetic variances for progeny of single and multiple herd sires, estimating a joint genetic variance for all animals, and ignoring sire x herd effects are compared.
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Citation
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, v.15, p. 131-134
ISSN
1328-3227
ISBN
0958629927
Start page
131
End page
134

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