Beef Cattle Breeding Developments for 2008 - ICBF
Beef Cattle Breeding Developments for 2008 - ICBF
Beef Cattle Breeding Developments for 2008 - ICBF
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1. Data <strong>for</strong> breeding decisions<br />
Animal Events<br />
• Sire Ancestry<br />
• Calving Ease<br />
• On farm weights<br />
• Linear scoring<br />
Breed Societies<br />
• Ancestry<br />
• Pedigree status<br />
• Foreign Info.<br />
AI Companies<br />
• Inseminations<br />
CMMS<br />
• Births/Deaths<br />
• Movements<br />
<strong>ICBF</strong> database<br />
Factories<br />
• Carcass weight<br />
• Con<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
• Carcass fat<br />
• Cull cow weight<br />
Tully<br />
• Feed Intake<br />
• Liveweights<br />
• Linear scores<br />
Marts<br />
• Weights & !/Kg<br />
• Irish beef cattle breeding data;<br />
– All breeds, all traits, low cost & high efficiency<br />
– Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme will improve quantity of data (~800k)<br />
but wont address data recording problems in pedigree herds.<br />
• Only 10% of pedigree weaning data is useable (weights)!<br />
© Irish <strong>Cattle</strong> <strong>Breeding</strong> Federation Soc. Ltd 2007<br />
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