Genetic Evaluation For Some Economically Importance Variables In Friesian Cows

Badr, Anas A. A.; Amer, Asmaa A. A.

doi:10.21608/jappmu.2020.95823

Genetic Evaluation For Some Economically Importance Variables In Friesian Cows

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Anas A. A. Badr ¹
Asmaa A. A. Amer ²

¹ Animal Production Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Nadi El-Said Str., Dokki, Giza, Egypt;

² Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agric., Tanta Univ., Egypt.

10.21608/jappmu.2020.95823

Abstract

A total of 1018 standard lactating of Friesian cows, progeny of 54 sires and 432 dams kept at Sakka Experimental farm, during 2012 to 2017 are used to calculate phenotypic and genetic effects for milk production in tenth months (MP), lactation length (LL) and fat percent (F%). Four selection indexes are calculated using relative economic weights (REW), method 1: standard deviation (REW₁) and method 2: Lamont method (REW₂). The overall means of MP, LL and Fat % are 3879 kg, 301 d and 3.69%, respectively. Month, year of parturition and lactation order had significant (P<0.01) effects on all studied traits, except month of parturition and lactation order effects (P>0.05) on F%. Bulls and cow within bulls had significant (P<0.01) effects on all traits studied. Heritability estimates are 0.32, 0.10 and 0.55 for MP, LL and Fat %, respectively. Genetic correlations among three variables are significant and ranged from 0.21 to 1.00. The basic index (Index₁), which includes the three variables MY, LL and Fat % was the best (had the highest accuracy (R_IH) and relative efficiency values (R_IH was 0.87 and 0.88 for REW₁ and REW₂, respectively).

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