The objective of this study was to add a maternal grandsire (MGS) effect to the existing sire model for national calving ease genetic evaluations. The Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory (AIPL) of USDA assumed responsibility for conducting the national genetic evaluation for calving ease and maintaining the associated database in 1999. Existing evaluations used a sire threshold model. Adding...

animal models are used to model the observations of animal performance that are genetically dependent.these models are considered as generalized linear mixed models and the genetic correlation structure of data is considered through random effects of breeding values. one goal of the mentioned models is to estimate variance components. in this research, an approximate bayesian approach presented...

in order to study on the effect of incomplete sire's pedigree on the prediction of breeding value and estimation of genetic trend, two quantitative traits such as weaning weight and average daily gain with heritabilities 0.15 and 0.30 were simulated. phenotypic, genetic and environmental correlations were assumed 0.5. resulted data files with different proportion of missed sire pedigree (0...

in this research, 6517 records, collected by khojir sheep breeding station (tehran, iran), during 1991 to 2011 were used to estimate genetic parameters of lamb survival in zandi sheep. genetic parameters were estimated using 16 different models of animal model, sire and threshold models using reml procedures. the aic criterion was used to evaluate the models. the effects in the most suitable an...

First lactation production records of 7,825 Mehsana buffaloes, sired by 200 sires maintained at DudhsagarResearch and Development Association, Dudhsagar Dairy, over a period 25 years (1989-2013), wereutilised for estimation breeding value the first milk yield using BLUP - Univariate sire model andanimal WOMBAT software. The study aimed to find out optimum number daughters that maybe sufficient ...

Selection intensity and generation interval were evaluated in a Hereford cattle herd made up of 14 inbred lines and 14 linecross groups corresponding to the lines of inbred sires at the Suan Juan Basin Research Center, Hesperus, Colorado. Selection indexes practiced were calculated in retrospect. Analyses of the records collected from 1946 through 1973 involved weaning weight (WW) and postweani...

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influence of maternal and sire-generation interaction effects on day-old chick' weight was investigated in two commercial broiler sire and dam lines, and in mazandaran native fowls. the data were analysed through restricted maximum likelihood (reml) procedures, using asreml software. ten different animal models were implemented and compared with likelihood ratio test. all models consisted ...

Th e aim of study was to investigate diff erent models for the evaluation of dairy bulls for male fertility. A dataset containing single insemination records performed on Brown Swiss cows and heifers reared in Eastern Italian Alps was used. Th e outcome variable (successful/ unsuccessful) was analyzed as binary trait. In the fi rst step raw conception rate was computed for each service sire, as...