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 August 2009; 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	0.045	.81	.63	.87
nld		0.069	.81	.75
usa			0.121	.63
che				0.486

BrownSwiss - Maternal Calving Ease
	deu	nld	usa	che
deu	0.035	.69	.58	.58
nld		0.056	.71	.72
usa			0.130	.64
che				0.527

Holstein - Direct Calving Ease
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	isr	ita	nld	usa
aus	3.065	.84	.70	.82	.73	.75	.62	.75	.77
can		0.077	.92	.93	.86	.87	.82	.91	.84
che			0.672	.92	.94	.82	.81	.87	.82
dnk				0.088	.92	.86	.76	.90	.87
fra					0.456	.84	.71	.88	.88
isr						3.173	.78	.85	.81
ita							0.062	.68	.63
nld								0.063	.77
usa									0.120

Holstein - Maternal Calving Ease
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	isr	ita	nld	usa
aus	0.000	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
can		0.096	.84	.85	.94	.65	.73	.68	.90
che			0.472	.89	.89	.68	.74	.90	.82
dnk				0.079	.81	.69	.57	.80	.78
fra					0.642	.64	.80	.78	.94
isr						3.041	.62	.60	.62
ita							0.045	.57	.74
nld								0.058	.72
usa									0.129

Holstein - Direct Stillbirth
	aus	can	che	dnk	fra	isr	ita	nld	usa
aus	3.074	.73	.81	.74	.46	.52	.76	.36	.40
can		0.022	.78	.97	.62	.67	.73	.69	.71
che			0.674	.81	.56	.65	.90	.46	.52
dnk				0.030	.67	.68	.76	.70	.68
fra					0.372	.69	.47	.70	.70
isr						1.606	.66	.64	.65
ita							0.062	.45	.45
nld								0.013	.67
usa									0.062

Red - Direct Calving Ease
	can	dnk	nor
can	0.063	.89	.83
dnk		0.070	.94
nor			0.038

Red - Maternal Calving Ease
	can	dnk	nor
can	0.068	.74	.72
dnk		0.056	.84
nor			0.030