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An assessment of dairy bull station progeny tests carried out at two centres in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Lucia Pearson
Lucia Pearson
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Late of The Department of Agriculture, The University of Leeds, Leeds 2, Yorkshire
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1. Station progeny tests of twenty-four Ayrshire and twenty-two Friesian bulls were carried out by the British Oil and Cake Mills Ltd. at two centres in Britain between 1953 and 1961. The tests followed the Danish pattern: groups of ten to seventeen daughters were brought to the station approximately 6 weeks before first calving and milked under standardized conditions for an average of 270 days.

2. The place of the station system in modern dairy practice in Britain and abroad was discussed.

3. Earlier results had suggested that milk yield, butterfat percentage, S.N.F. percentage, milking rate and conception interval should be taken into account in a progeny test.

4. Correlations were calculated between the bulls 305-day field ratings for milk yield and fat percentage and their 90- and 270-day station assessments. Possible reasons for the discrepancies were investigated.

5. The selection system employed did not appear to lead normally to the choice of heifers whose dams' milk yield or fat percentage differed from the recorded averages for the breed. In two groups of special cases, deviations were apparent but the effect on the accuracy of the station test was shown to be small. It was concluded that bias due to maternal genetic variation was unlikely to be serious in the general case.

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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , December 1965 , pp. 315 - 331
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1965

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