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BIHAR ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY, PATNA, BIHARBihar Veterinary College, Patna

Speaker:

Ramesh Kumar SinghAssistant Professor cum Jr. Scientist Division of Animal Genetics and Breeding Bihar Veterinary College, Patna

UNIT-IISire Evaluation in Multiple Herd

INDEXING IN MANY HERDSThis method of progeny testing used in the herd improvement is

quite suitable for testing sires which have

daughters in many herds through artificial insemination.

In building this index, advantage taken of the fact that in the very herds where daughters of A.I. bulls under test have given records, there are other females with corresponding records , i.e. stable mates which make records in the same year, excluding daughters of the bull. The average of such level of stable –mate records is used in correcting the daughter’s average for the unequal level of production in different herd.

DAIRY SEARCH INDEX (SUNDARESAN,1965) / CONTEMPORARY DAUGHTERAVERAGE INDEXS

I = A + [n / n+12] [(D – C

D) – b(M – CM)]

where, A = herd averagen = number of daughtersD = daughters averageM = dams averageCD = weighted average of contemporary daughtersCM = weighted average of contemporary damsb = regression coefficientThis index uses the performance of contemporaries and the variation in the number of daughters in the progeny group in estimating the breeding worth of the sire. It also corrects for the non-genetic effects like year and season. The above index is applicable under organized farm conditions. (Contemporaries are those individuals that are in same year, same season along with the daughters of the bull under test). Here, only daughters of sires in the first lactation 305- day milk yield are taken into consideration

Advantage1. Age correction are avoided since the daughters and their contemporaries start their first lactation at same

age on an average.

2. The daughter average is not influenced by culling and is an unbiased estimate of daughter level

3. Each daughter is compared to her contemporaries in the same herd on the same level of feeding and management, which would seem to be the most rational method of comparison.

CORRECTED STABLE- MATE DAUGHTER AVERAGE INDEXβ [D - b* (SD - B) – B]B = breed average i.e. the average production over all sires and herds of both the daughters

and the herds levels_

β =the regression of sire’s merit (G) on D,_D = average recorded production of the daughters of the sires in their various herds

b* = the intra- sire regression of daughter average on herd level as estimated by the stablemate average_SD = Σni SDi /Σni, the mean of SDI a over all the daughter records of the sires in theirI I various herdsB = breed average i.e. the average production over all sires and herds of both the daughters and the herds levels

CONTEMPORARY COMPARISONThis method is similar to herd mate comparison with additional requirement that a herd mate be of the

same age.

It was developed by Robertson and his coworkers

(1952) for estimating the breeding worth of the sire having daughters in more than one herd. In this method only the first lactation 305 day milk yield is taken for proving the sire.I = µ + {n / n + k} (D - C)where, n = number of daughtersC = average of daughters’ contemporariesk = ratio of error variance to sire variance

BEST LINEAR UNBIASED PREDICTION (BLUP)This was developed by C.R Henderson (1973), which is the most efficient method of sire evaluation.

BLUP

can be used with different models to predict breeding values and estimate environmental effects.

The properties of the BLUP procedure are as fallows;Best: Maximizations of the correlation between the true breeding g values and predicted values,Linear: Predicted breeding values are linear function of the observations,Unbiased: Estimates of fixed effects are unbiased and the unknown, true breeding values are distributed about the predicted breeding values.Prediction: The producer predicts the true breeding values.BLUP is generally used to predict sire breeding values given measurements on progeny, or to predict breeding values of animals with repeated records, or to predict breeding values of all animals in the pedigree.

The Models are as follows 1

. Sire model2. The repeatability

model3. Individual animal modelIn conventional method if adjustment factors are

estimated, the breeding value will be estimated by two stepApplying appropriate adjustment factors to each original record.Calculating the estimated breeding values of each sire usingI=biCiWhere , Ci is the average adjusted performance of all daughters of a given sire and bi is the appropriateIndex weight.It estimates expected breeding value (EBV) of sire by adjusting1. The data for herd,2. Year ,3. Season effects,4. The information provided by the daughters,5. Information from other relatives.Used in estimating the breeding values.

Animals across contemporary groups can be also compared. It provides estimates of breeding values of many sires born in different years and different locations simultaneously

and also provides the estimates of response to selection

. BLUP also accounts for complications

such as non random mating, environmental trend over time, bias due to culling and selection.

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