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Relationships between fertility and production in Holstein dairy cattle in different lactations
K L Raheja1, E B Burnside, L R Schaeffer
1Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
Record of Performance and Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation production records of Ontario Holstein cows were merged with breeding receipts of three Ontario AI units from September 1981 through December 1985. Relationships between fertility and production in the first three lactations were investigated for 97,368 daughters of 3806 sires in 22,768 herd-hear-seasons of calving. Fertility traits were days from calving to first insemination, number of inseminations per conception, and days open. Production traits were age and month of calving adjusted 305-d milk and fat yields and fat percentage. Multiple-trait maximum likelihood was used to estimate variances and covariances. Heritabilities for the first three lactations were .18, .18, and .19 for milk yield; .20, .19, and .19 for fat yield; and .58, .52, and .48 for fat percentage. Heritabilities of fertility traits ranged from .03 to .06. Genetic and phenotypic correlations between fertility and production traits in all three lactations were essentially 0. Genetic correlations between different lactation production traits ranged from .2 to .65. Repeatabilities of fertility traits ranged from .05 to .16 in different lactations. Repeatabilities for production traits in different lactations ranged from .51 to .77. Genetic and phenotypic correlations between fertility and production in the subsequent lactation and between production and subsequent lactation fertility were also very low or zero.
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