Birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), 6-month weight (W6), 9-month weight (W9) and yearling weight (YW) of Kermani lambs were used to estimate genetic parameters. The data were collected from Shahrbabak Sheep Breeding Research Station in Iran during the period of 1993-1998. The fixed effects in the model were lambing year, sex, type of birth and age of dam. Number of days between birth date a...

Breeding objectives were developed for Targhee sheep under rangeland production conditions. Traits considered were those for which EPD were available from the US National Sheep Improvement Program and included direct and maternal effects on 120-d weaning weight (WW and MM, respectively); yearling weight (YW); yearling fleece weight, fiber diameter, and staple length; and percent lamb crop (PLC)...

Genotypic and phenotypic data of 1,562 animals were analyzed to find genomic regions that potentially influence the birth weight (BW), weaning weight at seven months of age (WW) and yearling weight (YW) of Colombian Brahman cattle, with genotyping conducted using Illumina Bead chip array with 74,669 SNPs. A Single Step Genomic BLUP (ssGBLP), approach was used to estimate the proportion of varia...

Birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), preweaning weight gain (PWG), carcass traits and sensory evaluation of meat of Corriedale (C), Pampinta (P) and their Fl crossbred (P C) lambs were studied from 1991 to 1993 at the Agricultural Experimental Station of Anguil (La Pampa, Argentina). Each year the trial involved an average of 35 C, 43 P and 36 P C. Data were analyzed for year, genotype, sex ...

Performance of Dorper sheep was compared to other breeds in pure and cross-breeding evaluations under different production systems. The number of ewes lambed per ewe joint (E(L)/E(J)) varied for the Dorper from 0.68 to 0.91 (average 0.81) and for other breeds and crosses from 0.65 to 0.91 (average 0.82). Average litter size (L(B)/lambing) varied from 1.02 to 1.52 (average 1.28) and from 1.02 to...

_____________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Directand maternal heritabilities were estimated for weight traits in Brangus cattle using random regression models. After editing, 54 924 records, from birth(BW) to mature weight (MW) from 21 673 animals were selected for analysis. The data, which covered a period of 8 generations (1985 to 2010), were transf...

A Restricted Selection Index was constructed to genetically evaluate animals using a dataset composed of body weights Shami kids at the ages birth, weaning, and 6-month. The variance-covariance matrix (VCV) generated used estimate genetic parameters for index construction after adjusting fixed effects; year, birth month, kid sex, type (single, twin or triplet) doe age, kidding (KW), (BWT) weani...

Article history: Received 28 June 2011 Received in revised form 9 September 2011 Accepted 12 September 2011 A total of 15,645 records of birth weight (BrW), weaning weight (WW) and average daily gain (ADG) from 6055 cows belonging to 2121 different dam lines were analyzed to quantify the contribution of cytoplasmic line (l) effects to phenotypic variance of preweaning growth traits in a sample ...

The unprecedented increase in litter size over the last decade has led to a perceived increase in the number of fallback pigs (Sus scrofa). However, there is little peer-reviewed data available regarding the biological differences between fallback pigs and their normal cohorts. Therefore, the objective of this experiment was to identify differences in the biology and physiology, and thus the gr...

___________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The data used for this study consisted of 27 485 kid records, the progeny of 599 sires and 10 077 dams, and were collected on the 2000to 2009-born kids of 11 Angora goat studs. Variance and covariance components and ratios pertaining to direct additive genetic variation, maternal additive genetic variat...