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Progeny group size for evaluating natural service bulls using AI reference sires J. L. FOULLEY Françoise CLERGET-DARPOUX Station de Génétique quantitative et ap!liquee Centre national de Recherches zootechniques, LN.R.A.,., 78350Jouy-en-Josas I.N.S.E.R.M.,*UI55 Chateau de Longcham! 75016Paris Summary 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 as systematic connections between herds have not been realized. This study determines the sizes of the progeny groups to be tested in a system where these ties result from the wide diffusion of AI sires. Progeny group sizes giving a specified accuracy where calculated and optimized taking account of the number of NS(’) sires used, assuming the use of a single AI(l)reference sire. Thus, for a given coefficient of determination of 40.calculated on the basis of a heritability hs = 20,. the following progeny numbers n (progeny per NS sire) and m (progeny of AI reference sire) have to be recorded in the herd : (n = 25;m = 25), (n = 23;m = 19)and (n = 21;m = 12)in order to evaluate two or three sires one, respectively. The effects of various factors such as number of reference sires, common environmental effects and mode of sampling sires are also discussed. Introduction For about the last twenty years, rational selection of beef cattle in France has mainly been intended for AI bulls. This trend has