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 April 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

BrownSwiss - Direct Calving Ease
	deu	nld	usa	che
deu	0.056	.76	.66	.84
nld		0.068	.79	.83
usa			0.123	.66
che				0.478

BrownSwiss - Maternal Calving Ease
	deu	nld	usa	che
deu	0.043	.73	.61	.63
nld		0.061	.77	.89
usa			0.132	.72
che				0.520

Holstein - Direct Calving Ease
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	ita	nld	usa	isr
aus	3.248	.81	.57	.80	.64	.52	.72	.70	.71
can		0.064	.92	.96	.88	.79	.90	.88	.84
che			0.682	.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									3.011

Holstein - Maternal Calving Ease
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	ita	nld	usa	isr
aus	0.000	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
can		0.096	.86	.86	.94	.72	.78	.91	.66
che			0.436	.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									2.999

Holstein - Direct Stillbirth
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	ita	nld	usa	isr
aus	3.263	.67	.72	.71	.69	.60	.41	.49	.58
can		0.019	.76	.95	.66	.75	.68	.76	.78
che			0.685	.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									1.584

Holstein - Maternal Stillbirth
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	ita	nld	usa	isr
aus	0.000	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
can		0.035	.61	.97	.60	.54	.78	.87	.76
che			0.435	.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									2.265

Red - Direct Calving Ease
	can	dnk	fin	nor	swe
can	0.060	.85	.83	.80	.78
dnk		0.129	.84	.80	.85
fin			0.019	.78	.85
nor				0.037	.89
swe					0.014

Red - Maternal Calving Ease
	can	dnk	fin	nor	swe
can	0.007	.79	.75	.75	.79
dnk		0.082	.69	.79	.82
fin			0.021	.71	.75
nor				0.030	.81
swe					0.014