Table 1. National evaluation data considered in the Interbull evaluation for dairy production traits (November 1999)
national evaluation numberof records by breed

Brown
Country month-year

h2

model

Ayrshire

Swiss

Guernsey

Holstein

Jersey

Simmental
Australia 7-99 .25 AM 294 81 2835 632
Austria 10-99 .27-.30 AM MT 1247 297 3192
Belgium 9-99 .30 AM 905
Canada 11-99 .31-.42 AM TD 345 50 52 4512 210
Czech Rep. 9-99 .23-.24 AM MT 1239 4972
Denmark 10-99 .30 AM 1514 4319 1479
Estonia 10-99 .23-.27 AM TD 241
Finland 10-99 .30 AM 2742 587
France 10-99 .30 AM 139 7918 1964 *
France 10-99 .30 AM 154 **
France 10-99 .30 AM 84

***
Germany 9-99 .35-.37 AM TD 7992
Germany 11-99 .26-.30 AM MT 1769 9344
Hungary 8-99 .20-.25 AM 1119
Ireland 1-99 .35 AM 648
Israel 10-99 .25 AM 564
Italy 10-99 .30 AM 3248
Italy 10-99 .26-.29 AM 699
Italy 7-99 .29-.33 AM 448
Netherlands 10-99 .35 AM 35 5393 23
New Zealand 10-99 .28-.35 AM 487 2567 1873
Norway 6-99 .20 SM 2192
Poland 5-99 .12-.17 AM MT 2912
Rep. South Afr 6-99 .31-.35 AM 498
Slovenia 7-99 .25 SM 163 68 253
Spain 7-99 .25 AM 639
Sweden 10-99 .25 SM 2673 1469
Switzerland 10-99 .25-.29 AM 466

****
Switzerland 10-99 .32-.33 AM 1423
Switzerland 10-99 .34-.38 AM 465

*****

 1726
Unit. Kingdom 10-99 .35 AM 227 135 2414 190
Unit. States 11-99 .30 AM 245 384 574 16747 1559
No. Records 9205 7423 842 70146 5966 22053
No. Bulls 8960 6804 771 63875 5464 21137
Publishable Proofs 8936 6703 769 62878 5438 20791
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 99/11/09
By Dan Englund