APPENDIX I Estimated sire standard deviation

APPENDIX I

Estimated sire standard deviation (diagonal) and genetic correlations (above diagonal) considered in the Interbull routine evaluation for calving traits of November 2006; sire standard deviation estimates are determined on a de-standardized transmitting ability scale.

AUS=Australia, CAN=Canada, CHE=Switzerland, DEA=Germany+Austria, DNK=Denmark, DNR=Danish Red Holstein, FIN=Finland, FRA=France, ITA=Italy, NLD=The Netherlands, NOR=Norway, SWE=Sweden, USA=United States

BrownSwiss - Direct Calving Ease
	deu	nld	usa	che
deu	0.055	.77	.67	.83
nld		0.067	.79	.81
usa			0.128	.68
che				0.459

BrownSwiss - Maternal Calving Ease
	deu	nld	usa	che
deu	0.041	.76	.61	.61
nld		0.071	.76	.89
usa			0.131	.70
che				0.499

Holstein - Direct Calving Ease
	aus	can	che	dnk	dnr	fin	fra	ita	nld	swe	usa	isr
aus	3.115	.58	.53	.65	.73	.74	.62	.45	.70	.74	.67	.75
can		2.171	.80	.87	.81	.84	.81	.70	.80	.86	.75	.86
che			0.687	.94	.81	.86	.93	.85	.82	.87	.82	.81
dnk				0.106	.85	.94	.93	.77	.86	.96	.90	.86
dnr					0.101	.84	.81	.70	.89	.84	.78	.86
fin						0.023	.90	.68	.86	.95	.89	.86
fra							0.425	.74	.84	.91	.88	.83
ita								0.063	.60	.70	.61	.69
nld									0.064	.89	.79	.88
swe										0.030	.86	.89
usa											0.120	.86
isr												3.106

Holstein - Maternal Calving Ease
	aus	can	che	dnk	dnr	fin	fra	ita	nld	swe	usa	isr
aus	0.000	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
can		2.224	.91	.84	.80	.67	.80	.58	.89	.75	.71	.70
che			0.398	.88	.78	.68	.84	.66	.90	.85	.79	.74
dnk				0.084	.75	.61	.80	.59	.81	.82	.78	.74
dnr					0.074	.73	.77	.73	.80	.74	.76	.74
fin						0.026	.75	.66	.64	.65	.71	.71
fra							0.603	.85	.79	.89	.93	.75
ita								0.047	.59	.78	.76	.64
nld									0.059	.69	.77	.65
swe										0.029	.87	.79
usa											0.128	.75
isr												3.003

Holstein - Direct Stillbirth
	aus	can	che	dnk	dnr	fin	fra	ita	nld	swe	usa	isr
aus	3.109	.78	.73	.53	.72	.51	.67	.62	.37	.55	.37	.62
can		2.171	.84	.71	.79	.59	.78	.73	.46	.65	.45	.70
che			0.688	.79	.77	.78	.93	.87	.47	.70	.48	.70
dnk				0.026	.70	.85	.72	.69	.67	.92	.70	.82
dnr					0.100	.69	.78	.74	.67	.70	.73	.69
fin						0.011	.72	.75	.64	.82	.65	.77
fra							0.426	.74	.48	.68	.50	.68
ita								0.063	.46	.61	.45	.60
nld									0.010	.65	.63	.73
swe										0.026	.64	.80
usa											0.062	.66
isr												3.445

Holstein - Maternal Stillbirth
	aus	can	che	dnk	dnr	fin	fra	ita	nld	swe	usa	isr
aus	0.000	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
can		2.224	.96	.53	.75	.63	.81	.59	.43	.59	.54	.57
che			0.403	.53	.75	.66	.88	.71	.50	.62	.56	.61
dnk				0.028	.63	.82	.52	.46	.82	.88	.81	.67
dnr					0.074	.71	.77	.69	.73	.66	.61	.58
fin						0.009	.76	.71	.77	.92	.87	.70
fra							0.603	.87	.52	.68	.64	.57
ita								0.047	.45	.60	.56	.49
nld									0.003	.73	.71	.60
swe										0.028	.87	.65
usa											0.116	.60
isr												3.278

Red - Direct Calving Ease
	can	dnk	fin	nor	swe
can	1.863	.85	.79	.78	.78
dnk		0.130	.83	.78	.84
fin			0.018	.74	.81
nor				0.036	.87
swe					0.014

Red - Maternal Calving Ease
	can	dnk	fin	nor	swe
can	1.788	.80	.73	.74	.71
dnk		0.083	.71	.81	.83
fin			0.019	.72	.73
nor				0.029	.78
swe					0.014