Combined index for milk production and growth rate as selection criteria of performance tested AI bulls.docVIP

ATTEMPTS TO APPLY THE DIRECT SIRE Institat fiir Tierhaltung und Tierzüchtung der Universitat Hohenheim D-!ooo Stuttgart, 7o BRD. Since several assumptions of the herdmate comparison, which is the current method for sire evaluation, are no longer valid, besides other improvements attempts are made to use the direct sire comparison ? as proposed by Henderson. On account of the small herd size all ? lactations are used and the records are adjusted for age and month of calving. The sires are grouped according to their date of birth in order to account for genetic trend. Forcomp