Table 1. National evaluation data considered in the Interbull evaluation for dairy production traits (August 2000)

  national evaluation number of record by breed        
        Brown            
Country month-year h2 model Ayrshire Swiss Guernsey Holstein   Jersey Simmental  
                       
Australia 7-00 .25 AM 310   88 3031   684    
Austria 8-00 .27-.30 AM MT   1236   294     3180  
Belgium 8-00 .30 AM       998        
Canada 8-00 .31-.42 AM TD 357 51 50 4686   205    
Czech Rep. 7-00 .23-.24 AM MT       1309     4966  
Denmark 7-00 .30 AM   1478   4362   1507    
Estonia 8-00 .23-.27 AM TD       243        
Finland 7-00 .33-.44 AM TD 2044     596        
France 6-00 .30 AM   136   7743     2009 *
France 6-00 .30 AM             158 **
France 6-00 .30 AM       82 ***      
Germany 7-00 .35-.37 AM TD       8820        
Germany 8-00 .26-.30 AM MT   1757         9143  
Hungary 8-00 .20-.25 AM       1089        
Ireland 7-00 .35 AM       713        
Israel 3-00 .25 AM       529        
Italy 7-00 .30 AM       3160        
Italy 7-00 .26-.29 AM   715            
Italy 7-00 .29-.33 AM             463  
Netherlands 8-00 .35 AM   36   5414   19    
New Zealand 7-00 .28-.35 AM 494     2470   1831    
Norway 6-99 .20 SM 2064              
Poland 4-00 .12-.17 AM MT       3220        
Rep. South Africa 6-00 .27-.35 AM       496   196    
Slovenia 8-00 .25 AM   182   64     261  
Spain 7-00 .25 AM       708        
Sweden 7-00 .30 AM 2429     1329        
Switzerland 7-00 .30-.36 AM TD       485 ****      
Switzerland 1-00 .32-.33 AM   1369            
Switzerland 7-00 .34-.38 AM       487 *****   1727  
Unit. Kingdom 7-00 .35 AM 220   136 2797   189    
Unit. States 8-00 .30 AM 248 400 569 16889   1651    
                       
No. Records       8166 7360 843 72014   6282 21907  
No. Bulls       7886

6741

 770 65168   5711 20934  
Publishable Proofs       7699

6680

 770 64185   5705 20664  
AM=Animal Model; AM MT=Animal Model with lactations as correlated traits;
AM TD= Animal Test Day Model; SM=Sire/Maternal Grandsire Model
* French Montbeliarde in the Simmental evaluation of Interbull
** French Simmental in the Simmental evaluation of Interbull
*** French Red Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull
**** Swiss Black & White Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull
***** Swiss Red Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull


Last Updated on 00-08-14
By Dan Englund