No 33 (2005)

Proceedings of the 2005 Interbull meeting

Uppsala, Sweden, June 2-4 2005

Table of Contents

Articles

Preface PDF
F Fikse
Mace with sire-mgs and animal pedigree PDF
C van der Linde, A de Roos, A Harbers, G de Jong 3
Multiple-trait-multiple-country genetic evaluations for udder health PDF
T Mark, P G Sullivan 8
Genetic trend validation in the PROTEJE data and the influence of genetic correlations on MACE EBVs PDF
E J van Steenbergen, C van der Linde, A de Roos, A Harbers, G de Jong 16
Prospects of principal components and factor analysis for estimation of genetic correlations among countries for milk production traits PDF
H Leclerc, W F Fikse, V Ducrocq 21
Milkability genetic evaluation in Brown Swiss: An international approach PDF
E Santus, S Ghiroldi 25
Feasibility of MACE for calving traits for non-Holstein breeds PDF
J H Jakobsen, F Fikse 28
Preliminary report of Interbull pilot study for female fertility traits in Holstein populations PDF
H Jorjani 34
Fertility breeding values in New Zealand, the next generation PDF
B L Harris, J E Pryce, Z Z Xu, W A Montgomerie 47
Preliminary study of genetic evaluation for female fertility in Japan PDF
Y Atagi, K Hagiya 51
To one cow survival and fertility evaluation for Irish dairy and beef cattle PDF
M H Pool, V E Olori, A R Cromie, B W Wickham, R F Veerkamp 55
Phenotypic associations between traits other than production and longevity in New Zealand dairy cattle with special emphasis on management traits PDF
D P Berry, B L Harris, A M Winkelman, W Montgomerie 59
Developing a genetic evaluation for fertility using angularity and milk yield as correlated traits PDF
S Biffani, M Marusi, F Biscarini, F Canavesi 63
Usage of predictors for fertility in the genetic evaluation, application in the Netherlands PDF
G de Jong 69
Bivariate analysis of number of services to conception and days open in Norwegian Red using a censored threshold-linear model PDF
Y M Chang, I M Andersen-Ranberg, B Heringstad, D Gianola, G Klemetsdal 74
Inbreeding adjustments and effect on genetic trend estimates PDF
P M VanRaden 81
Analysis of inbreeding in the Israeli Holstein dairy cattle population PDF
J I Weller, E Ezra 85
Inbreeding depression for global and partial economic indexes, production, type and functional traits in the Walloon Region of Belgium PDF
C. Croquet, P. Mayeres, A. Gillon, S. Vanderick, N. Gengler 88
Genetic diversification of the Holstein breed in Canada and internationally PDF
B J Van Doormaal, F Miglior, G Kistemaker, P Brand 93
Ten years experience of multi-breed evaluations and crossbreeding in New Zealand PDF
W A Montgomerie 98
Genetic evaluation of production traits across cattle breeds in Ireland PDF
V E Olori, A Harbers 102
Utilizing multibreed commercial slaughter information in beef selection indices in Ireland PDF
J M Hickey, P R Amer, A R Cromie, A Grogan, M Calus, B W Wickham, R F Veerkamp 109
Optimizing dairy cattle breeding programs using international genetic evaluations PDF
H A Mulder, R F Veerkamp, P Bijma 115
New applications of conformation trait data for dairy cow improvement PDF
T J Lawlor, J Connor, S Tsuruta, I Misztal 119
Comparative study of artificial insemination and natural service cost effectiveness in dairy cattle PDF
G E Valergakis, G Banos, G Arsenos 124
Interbull - how it began and some achievements PDF
J Philipsson 131
Interbull - past, present and future PDF
M Goddard, K Beard 136
Interbull and 10 years of cattle breeding progress - what's next? PDF
B Wickham 143
Moving from BLUP to marker-assisted BLUP for genetic evaluations PDF
D L Johnson, C Stricker, R L Fernando, B L Harris 151
Simultaneous estimation of genetic parameters and heterogeneous variances for production traits of Holstein cattle in Japan PDF
K Hagiya, Y Atagi, T Shirai, M Suzuki 155
National genetic evaluation of milk yield for heat tolerance of United States Holsteins PDF
J Bohmanova, I Misztal, S Tsuruta, H D Norman, T J Lawlor 160
Genetic evaluation for milking speed in German Holstein population using different traits in a multiple trait repeatability model PDF
S Rensing, W Ruten 163
Genetic evaluation for feet traits collected from young German Holstein bulls PDF
F Reinhardt, W Ruten, S Rensing 167
Test-day model for national genetic evaluation of somatic cell count in Italian Simmental population PDF
D Vicario, L Degano, P Carnier 171
Genetic evaluation of cow survival using a lactation random regression model PDF
N Gengler, S Vanderick, P Mayeres, A Gillon, C Croquet 176
AGELI: An integrated platform for the Assessment of national Genetic Evaluation results by Learning and Informing PDF
H Eleftherohorinou, S Diplaris, P A Mitkas, G Banos 183
Residual analysis for comparing procedures that adjust heterogenous phenotypic variances in a 305 days lactational model genetic evaluation PDF
J Pena, M A Ibañez, M J Carabaño 188
Model validation using individual daughter deviations - statistical power PDF
M Lidauer, E A Mäntysaari, J Pedersen, I Strandén 195
Tolerance values for validation of trends in genetic variances over time PDF
W F Fikse, Z Liu, P G Sullivan 200
Body trait profiles during first lactation PDF
E Wall, M P Coffey, S Brotherstone 207
Random regression model for the genetic evaluation of production traits of dairy cattle in the UK PDF
R Mrode, S Brotherstone, I White, G Swanson, M Coffey, H Jones, R Thompson 211
The relationship between parameters of biological models of lactation and milk production PDF
B Albarrán-Portillo, G E Pollott 215
Calf's suckling ability in Italian Brown Swiss PDF
A Rossoni, C Nicoletti, S Ghiroldi, E Santus, A Bagnato 218
ITE: The new selection index for the Italian Brown Swiss PDF
S Ghiroldi, C Nicoletti, E Santus, A Rossoni, A Bagnato 222
List of participants PDF
F Fikse 227


ISSN: 2001-340X