Inbreeding in Swiss Braunvieh and its influence on breeding values predicted from a repeatability animal model.

Abstract excerpt

Inbreeding coefficients were computed for 910,444 animals of the Swiss Braunvieh population. Of the animals born in 1984, 71.5% were inbred with 67.9, 3.4, and .2% having inbreeding coefficients between greater than 0 and 5%, greater than 5 to 10%, and greater than 10%, respectively. The average inbreeding coefficient was 1.14% but, for animals with both parents and at least one grandparent known, it was 1.67%....

Topics

• Animals
• Cattle
• Computers
• Female
• Inbreeding
• Lactation
• Lipids
• Male
• Milk
• Milk Proteins
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype