| Table 1. National evaluation data considered in the Interbull routine evaluation | |||||||||||
| for dairy production traits (August 2002) | |||||||||||
| national evaluation | number of records for milk yield by breed | ||||||||||
| month | Brown | ||||||||||
| Country | year | h2 |
model |
Ayrshire |
Swiss |
Guernsey |
Holstein |
Jersey |
Simmental |
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| Australia | 7-02 | .25 | AM | 354 | 101 | 3398 | 770 | ||||
| Austria | 8-02 | .27-.30 | AM MT | 1267 | 3352 | ||||||
| Belgium | 8-02 | .30 | AM | 1140 | |||||||
| Canada | 8-02 | .31-.42 | AM TD | 416 | 58 | 63 | 5240 | 230 | |||
| Czech Rep. | 7-02 | .32-.35 | AM MT | 1568 | 4804 | ||||||
| Denmark | 7-02 | .30 | AM | 1419 | 4577 | 1538 | |||||
| Denmark | 7-02 | .30 | AM | 146 | * | ||||||
| Estonia | 7-02 | .23-.27 | AM TD | 253 | |||||||
| Finland | 7-02 | .33-.44 | AM TD | 2242 | 635 | ||||||
| France | 6-02 | .30 | AM | 138 | 8303 | 2151 | ** | ||||
| France | 6-02 | .30 | AM | 172 | *** | ||||||
| France | 6-02 | .30 | AM | 85 | **** | ||||||
| Germany | 7-02 | .30-.39 | AM TD | 170 | 11029 | 21 | |||||
| Germany | 8-02 | .26-.30 | AM MT | 1811 | 9006 | ||||||
| Hungary | 8-02 | .20-.25 | AM | 1009 | 79 | ||||||
| Ireland | 5-02 | .35 | AM | 718 | |||||||
| Israel | 2-02 | .25 | AM | 559 | |||||||
| Italy | 7-02 | .30 | AM | 4135 | 19 | ||||||
| Italy | 5-02 | .26-.29 | AM | 798 | |||||||
| Italy | 7-02 | .29-.33 | AM | 588 | |||||||
| Netherlands | 7-02 | .51-.64 | AM TD | 41 | 6038 | 22 | 38 | ||||
| New Zealand | 7-02 | .28-.35 | AM | 559 | 14 | 43 | 2743 | 2005 | |||
| Norway | 6-02 | .25 | SM | 2187 | |||||||
| Poland | 4-02 | .20-.26 | AM MT | 3639 | |||||||
| Rep. South Afr | 4-02 | .19-.35 | AM | 43 | 27 | 456 | 217 | ||||
| Slovenia | 7-02 | .21-.28 | AM | 177 | 80 | 268 | |||||
| Spain | 6-02 | .28 | AM | 899 | |||||||
| Sweden | 7-02 | .30 | AM | 2428 | 1354 | ||||||
| Switzerland | 7-02 | .30-.36 | AM TD | 506 | ***** | ||||||
| Switzerland | 7-02 | .34-.36 | AM TD | 1537 | |||||||
| Switzerland | 7-02 | .34-.36 | AM TD | 573 | ****** | 1780 | |||||
| Unit. Kingdom | 7-02 | .35 | AM | 213 | 147 | 2962 | 175 | ||||
| Unit. States | 8-02 | .30-.35 | AM | 248 | 439 | 569 | 17626 | 1824 | |||
| No. Records | 10279 | 6280 | 950 | 79671 | 6821 | 22238 | |||||
| No. Bulls | 9877 | 5585 | 799 | 71032 | 6079 | 20957 | |||||
| Publishable Proofs | 9736 | 5568 | 797 | 69910 | 6073 | 20383 | |||||
| AM=Animal Model; AMMT=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 | |||||||||||