Progeny group size for evaluating natural service bulls using AI reference sires 英文参考文献.docVIP

Progeny group size for evaluating natural service bulls using AI reference sires Fran?oise CLERGET-DARPOUX * U I.N.S.E.R.M., I55 0 Jouy-en-Josas Chateau de Longcham! 7501 Paris Station de Génétique quantitative et ap!liquee Centre national de Recherches zootechniques, LN.R.A., Use of on-farm beef performance recording for evaluating NS sires might be a means to improve the efficiency of beef sire selection. However, the validity of ranking sires from a large number of herds remains restricted as long assystematic connections betweenherds have not been realized. This study determines the sizes of the progeny groups to be tested in asystem where these calculated Progeny group sizes giving a specified accuracy where l) and optimized taking account of the number of NS(’) sires used, assuming the use of a single AI( reference sire. Thus, calculated on the basis of a heritability hs 02., = 4.0 per have to be recorded in the herd : (n = 25 m = 25), (n = order to evaluate two or three sires respectively. NS sire) and m (progeny of AI reference sire) ; ) ; m = 19 and (n = 21 m = 12 in The effects of various factors such as number of reference sires, common environmental effects and mode of sampling sires are also discussed. For about the last twenty years, rational selection of beef cattle in France has mainly been intended for AI bulls. This trend has led in particular to the pro- gressive setting up of integrated selection schemes of males used for either termi- nal crossing or producing breeding females. In the latter situation, a rather large 58 fraction in the population, variable according to breeds from  100 for Limousin and Blonde d’Aquitaine breeds is still bred by natural service. The value of this population both for selection within itself and for the diffusion of selected genes progeny testing after on breeding qualities remains limited, however, as long as the breeding value of NS sires has n