Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVIII, Issue 1
Written by Rodica Stefania PELMUS, Mircea Catalin ROTAR, Mihail Alexandru GRAS, Cristina VAN
The objective of this study was to estimate the breeding values and genetic parameters for birth weight and weaning weight in Limousine cattle breed with multivariate maternal animal model for selection. Data consisted of records of 1207 cattle from Romanian Breeding Association for Beef cattle. The direct breeding values for birth weight were between -7.890 and 7.049 and for weaning weight -55.381 and 60.818 kg. The maternal breeding values for birth weight ranged between -1.701 and 1.810 and for weaning weight -22.453 and 20.747. The direct and maternal heritability for birth weight were 0.105, respectively 0.035, for weaning weight 0.662, respectively 0.246. The total heritability for birth weight was 0.92 and 0.655 for weaning weight.
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