In this study, production, reproduction, management and economic parameters resulted from recording of 4 flocks with 1155 head of breeding ewes during annual cycle of production (August 2011 to August 2012) in extensive rearing system were used to determine the breeding objective and relative economic values for Dalagh sheep. To calculate the economic values for traits, the level of each trait ...

     In this study, estimation of genetic parameters were performed for some reproductive disorders (retained placenta, repetitious abortion and infertility) and genetic and phenotypic correlations between these traits with milk, fat and protein yield.  The obtained data were collected from 63403 Holstein cows on Animal Breeding Center of Iran (from 2001 to 2013). After editing the data, estima...

     The aim of this research was to investigate the calving season effect on some of the productive traits including milk production, fat percentage and some of reproductive traits including pregnancy period and calf birth weight and also estimation of genetic parameters of studied traits too. In this study the data of 22360 Holestein dairy cows form Tehran province’s 65 herds of between 2012 ...

A total of 179,460 monthly test-day milk records (thrice a day milking) obtained from 17,946 Iranian Holstein heifers distributed in 287 herds and calved from 1986 to 2001 were used to predict breeding value of animals. Monthly test-day milk production was analysed by applying a covariance function in which the effects of herd-year-season of production (HYSOP), age at test day (covariate), addi...

To investigate the effects of categorical trait levels on EBVs accuracies, genetic and phenotypic trends and inbreeding coefficient, a breeding stock contained 400 animals was simulated through stochastic method using R programming package. The population was simulated for 7 generations while each generation contained 200 animals. The generations were overlapped and in each ones 20 percent of t...