| Table 1. National evaluation data considered in the Interbull routine evaluation for dairy production traits (August 2001) | |||||||||||
| national evaluation | number of records for milk yield by breed | ||||||||||
| month | Brown | ||||||||||
| Country | year |
h2 |
model |
Ayrshire |
Swiss |
Guernsey |
Holstein |
Jersey |
Simmental | ||
| Australia | 7-01 | .25 | AM | 334 | 93 | 3239 | 705 | ||||
| Austria | 8-01 | .27-.30 | AM MT | 1255 | 307 | 3268 | |||||
| Belgium | 8-01 | .30 | AM | 1069 | |||||||
| Canada | 8-01 | .31-.42 | AM TD | 387 | 55 | 57 | 5029 | 215 | |||
| Czech Rep. | 7-01 | .23-.24 | AM MT | 1457 | 4926 | ||||||
| Denmark | 7-01 | .30 | AM | 1445 | 4496 | 1532 | |||||
| Denmark | 7-01 | .30 | AM | 147 | * | ||||||
| Estonia | 7-01 | .23-.27 | AM TD | 244 | |||||||
| Finland | 7-01 | .33-.44 | AM TD | 2139 | 621 | ||||||
| France | 6-01 | .30 | AM | 141 | 7685 | 2079 | ** | ||||
| France | 6-01 | .30 | AM | 165 | *** | ||||||
| France | 6-01 | .30 | AM | 83 | **** | ||||||
| Germany | 7-01 | .35-.37 | AM TD | 156 | 9940 | 18 | |||||
| Germany | 8-01 | .26-.30 | AM MT | 1800 | 9050 | ||||||
| Hungary | 8-01 | .20-.25 | AM | 1071 | |||||||
| Ireland | 7-01 | .35 | AM | 750 | |||||||
| Israel | 3-01 | .25 | AM | 557 | |||||||
| Italy | 7-01 | .30 | AM | 3586 | 14 | ||||||
| Italy | 7-01 | .26-.29 | AM | 754 | |||||||
| Italy | 7-01 | .29-.33 | AM | 493 | |||||||
| Netherlands | 7-01 | .35 | AM | 39 | 5708 | 23 | |||||
| New Zealand | 4-01 | .28-.35 | AM | 537 | 2598 | 1929 | |||||
| Norway | 6-01 | .25 | SM | 2210 | |||||||
| Poland | 4-01 | .12-.17 | AM MT | 3477 | |||||||
| Rep. South Afr | 4-01 | .19-.35 | AM | 25 | 471 | 200 | |||||
| Slovenia | 7-01 | .21-.28 | AM | 174 | 72 | 262 | |||||
| Spain | 7-01 | .28 | AM | 793 | |||||||
| Sweden | 4-01 | .30 | AM | 2477 | 1355 | ||||||
| Switzerland | 7-01 | .30-.36 | AM TD | 494 | ***** | ||||||
| Switzerland | 7-01 | .34-.36 | AM TD | 1454 | |||||||
| Switzerland | 7-01 | .34-.38 | AM | 526 | ****** | 1771 | |||||
| Unit. Kingdom | 7-01 | .35 | AM | 213 | 136 | 2846 | 175 | ||||
| Unit. States | 8-01 | .30-.35 | AM | 254 | 433 | 565 | 17269 | 1729 | |||
| No. Records | 10152 | 6105 | 876 | 75890 | 6540 | 22014 | |||||
| No. Bulls | 9798 | 5473 | 789 | 68213 | 5891 | 20943 | |||||
| Publishable Proofs | 9602 | 5443 | 787 | 67058 | 5884 | 20752 | |||||
| AM=Animal Model; AM MT=Animal Model with lactations as correlated traits; | |||||||||||
| AM TD= Animal Test Day Model; SM=Sire/Maternal Grandsire Model | |||||||||||
| * Danish Red & White in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull | |||||||||||
| ** French Montbeliarde in the Simmental evaluation of Interbull | |||||||||||
| *** French Simmental in the Simmental evaluation of Interbull | |||||||||||
| **** French Red Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull | |||||||||||
| ***** Swiss Black & White Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull | |||||||||||
| ****** Swiss Red Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull | |||||||||||