Article
Improved dairy cattle mating plans at herd level using genomic information.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jan 2021
Bérodier M, Berg P, Meuwissen T, Boichard D, Brochard M, Ducrocq V
Abstract excerpt
From 2012 to 2018, 223 180 Montbéliarde females were genotyped in France and the number of newly genotyped females increased at a rate of about 33% each year. With female genotyping information, farmers have access to the genomic estimated breeding values of the females in their herd and to their carrier status for genetic defects or major genes segregating in the breed. This information, combined with genomic...
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- Female
- France
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Inbreeding
- Male
- Pedigree