APPENDIX I

Estimated sire standard deviation (diagonal) and genetic correlations (above diagonal) considered in the Interbull routine evaluation for calving traits of January 2008; 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

Brown Swiss - Direct Calving Ease
	deu	nld	usa	che
deu	0.055	.76	.66	.84
nld		0.067	.79	.83
usa			0.121	.66
che				0.477
Brown Swiss - Maternal Calving Ease
	deu	nld	usa	che
deu	0.042	.73	.61	.63
nld		0.067	.77	.89
usa			0.129	.72
che				0.520
Holstein - Direct Calving Ease
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	ita	nld	usa	isr
aus	3.091	.81	.57	.80	.64	.52	.72	.70	.71
can		0.064	.92	.96	.88	.79	.90	.88	.84
che			0.685	.91	.93	.83	.83	.83	.80
dnk				0.088	.92	.73	.89	.90	.84
fra					0.428	.72	.85	.88	.82
ita						0.063	.62	.62	.73
nld							0.064	.79	.85
usa								0.120	.82
isr									3.065
Holstein - Maternal Calving Ease
		can	che	dnk	fra	ita	nld	usa	isr
can		0.096	.86	.86	.94	.72	.78	.91	.66
che			0.426	.90	.86	.69	.91	.80	.72
dnk				0.079	.81	.59	.81	.78	.69
fra					0.606	.83	.82	.93	.70
ita						0.046	.58	.76	.64
nld							0.059	.78	.62
usa								0.128	.67
isr									2.987
Holstein - Direct Stillbirth
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	ita	nld	usa	isr
aus	3.114	.67	.72	.71	.69	.60	.41	.49	.58
can		0.019	.76	.95	.66	.75	.68	.76	.78
che			0.688	.80	.93	.86	.50	.59	.70
dnk				0.030	.75	.75	.67	.71	.71
fra					0.428	.74	.50	.61	.69
ita						0.063	.47	.49	.62
nld							0.010	.69	.70
usa								0.062	.70
isr									1.581
Holstein - Maternal Stillbirth
		can	che	dnk	fra	ita	nld	usa	isr
can		0.035	.61	.97	.60	.54	.78	.87	.76
che			0.429	.63	.89	.75	.52	.55	.65
dnk				0.031	.57	.52	.81	.82	.77
fra					0.606	.86	.52	.64	.59
ita						0.046	.47	.54	.59
nld							0.003	.72	.64
usa								0.116	.67
isr									2.274
Red - Direct Calving Ease
	can	dnk	fin	nor	swe
can	0.060	.85	.83	.80	.78
dnk		0.128	.84	.80	.85
fin			0.019	.78	.85
nor				0.037	.89
swe					0.013
Red - Maternal Calving Ease
	can	dnk	fin	nor	swe
can	0.007	.79	.75	.75	.79
dnk		0.082	.69	.79	.82
fin			0.020	.71	.75
nor				0.030	.81
swe					0.014