Table 1. National evaluation data considered in the Interbull routine evaluation for dairy production traits (August 2001) | |||||||||||
national evaluation | number of records for milk yield by breed | ||||||||||
month | Brown | ||||||||||
Country | year |
h2 |
model |
Ayrshire |
Swiss |
Guernsey |
Holstein |
Jersey |
Simmental | ||
Australia | 7-01 | .25 | AM | 334 | 93 | 3239 | 705 | ||||
Austria | 8-01 | .27-.30 | AM MT | 1255 | 307 | 3268 | |||||
Belgium | 8-01 | .30 | AM | 1069 | |||||||
Canada | 8-01 | .31-.42 | AM TD | 387 | 55 | 57 | 5029 | 215 | |||
Czech Rep. | 7-01 | .23-.24 | AM MT | 1457 | 4926 | ||||||
Denmark | 7-01 | .30 | AM | 1445 | 4496 | 1532 | |||||
Denmark | 7-01 | .30 | AM | 147 | * | ||||||
Estonia | 7-01 | .23-.27 | AM TD | 244 | |||||||
Finland | 7-01 | .33-.44 | AM TD | 2139 | 621 | ||||||
France | 6-01 | .30 | AM | 141 | 7685 | 2079 | ** | ||||
France | 6-01 | .30 | AM | 165 | *** | ||||||
France | 6-01 | .30 | AM | 83 | **** | ||||||
Germany | 7-01 | .35-.37 | AM TD | 156 | 9940 | 18 | |||||
Germany | 8-01 | .26-.30 | AM MT | 1800 | 9050 | ||||||
Hungary | 8-01 | .20-.25 | AM | 1071 | |||||||
Ireland | 7-01 | .35 | AM | 750 | |||||||
Israel | 3-01 | .25 | AM | 557 | |||||||
Italy | 7-01 | .30 | AM | 3586 | 14 | ||||||
Italy | 7-01 | .26-.29 | AM | 754 | |||||||
Italy | 7-01 | .29-.33 | AM | 493 | |||||||
Netherlands | 7-01 | .35 | AM | 39 | 5708 | 23 | |||||
New Zealand | 4-01 | .28-.35 | AM | 537 | 2598 | 1929 | |||||
Norway | 6-01 | .25 | SM | 2210 | |||||||
Poland | 4-01 | .12-.17 | AM MT | 3477 | |||||||
Rep. South Afr | 4-01 | .19-.35 | AM | 25 | 471 | 200 | |||||
Slovenia | 7-01 | .21-.28 | AM | 174 | 72 | 262 | |||||
Spain | 7-01 | .28 | AM | 793 | |||||||
Sweden | 4-01 | .30 | AM | 2477 | 1355 | ||||||
Switzerland | 7-01 | .30-.36 | AM TD | 494 | ***** | ||||||
Switzerland | 7-01 | .34-.36 | AM TD | 1454 | |||||||
Switzerland | 7-01 | .34-.38 | AM | 526 | ****** | 1771 | |||||
Unit. Kingdom | 7-01 | .35 | AM | 213 | 136 | 2846 | 175 | ||||
Unit. States | 8-01 | .30-.35 | AM | 254 | 433 | 565 | 17269 | 1729 | |||
No. Records | 10152 | 6105 | 876 | 75890 | 6540 | 22014 | |||||
No. Bulls | 9798 | 5473 | 789 | 68213 | 5891 | 20943 | |||||
Publishable Proofs | 9602 | 5443 | 787 | 67058 | 5884 | 20752 | |||||
AM=Animal Model; AM MT=Animal Model with lactations as correlated traits; | |||||||||||
AM TD= Animal Test Day Model; SM=Sire/Maternal Grandsire Model | |||||||||||
* Danish Red & White in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull | |||||||||||
** 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 |