APPENDIX I
Estimated sire standard deviation (diagonal) and genetic correlations (above
diagonal) considered in the Interbull routine evaluation for calving traits
of February 2005; sire standard deviation estimates are determined on a
de-standardized transmitting ability scale.
AUS=Australia, CAN=Canada, CHE=Switzerland, DEU=Germany + Austria,
DNK=Denmark, DNR=Danish Red Holstein, FIN=Finland, FRA=France, ITA=Italy,
NLD=The Netherlands, SWE=Sweden, USA=United States
		Holstein Direct Calving Ease
	AUS	CHE	DNK	DNR	FIN	FRA	ITA	NLD	SWE	USA
AUS	3.12	.53	.58	.71	.67	.59	.52	.64	.65	.64
CHE		0.684	.94	.83	.86	.92	.85	.81	.86	.85
DNK			0.115	.88	.94	.91	.78	.86	.96	.90
DNR				0.125	.85	.82	.73	.90	.86	.75
FIN					0.0222	.88	.68	.84	.94	.85
FRA						0.042	.72	.85	.85	.88
ITA							0.061	.61	.72	.66
NLD								0.064	.88	.78
SWE									0.031	.85
USA										0.060
		Holstein Maternal Calving Ease
	CHE	DNK	FIN	FRA	ITA	NLD	SWE
CHE	0.396	.92	.70	.80	.71	.85	.90
DNK		0.090	.62	.77	.61	.84	.88
FIN			0.0243	.69	.62	.63	.60
FRA				0.061	.82	.75	.89
ITA					0.046	.67	.79
NLD						0.060	.77
SWE							0.029
		Holstein Direct Stillbirth
	AUS	CHE	DNK	DNR	FIN	FRA	ITA	NLD	SWE	USA
AUS	3.12	.39	.38	.54	.47	.62	.52	.37	.38	.62
CHE		0.0087	.68	.71	.75	.65	.63	.61	.63	.53
DNK			0.0275	.84	.87	.69	.64	.66	.93	.76
DNR				0.0271	.80	.71	.65	.87	.76	.67
FIN					0.0115	.70	.69	.64	.85	.67
FRA						0.0423	.68	.50	.66	.86
ITA							0.0614	.46	.58	.67
NLD								0.0106	.67	.45
SWE									0.0256	.65
USA										0.0603
		Holstein Maternal Stillbirth
	CHE	DNK	DNR	FIN	FRA	ITA	NLD	SWE
CHE	0.0122	.82	.72	.77	.56	.56	.81	.86
DNK		0.0257	.75	.80	.60	.49	.81	.90
DNR			0.0338	.73	.64	.59	.79	.70
FIN				0.0089	.80	.74	.75	.90
FRA					0.0610	.80	.50	.72
ITA						0.0439	.41	.64
NLD							0.00319	.72
SWE								0.0240