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The Assessment of Progeny Tests of Dairy Bulls made under Farm Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

A. T. G. McArthur
A. T. G. McArthur*
Affiliation:
Bureau of Records, Milk Marketing Board of England and Wales
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The main object of the artificial insemination service is herd improvement. This is facilitated by the larger selection differential obtained when only a small number of bulls are used. Robertson and Rendel (1954) have shown that artificially bred daughters by bulls used at centres outwith the Milk Marketing Board system did not outyield naturally bred daughters milking in the same herds and these results have been substantiated by data from the Board’s centres. This failure to select bulls better than those used in the average herd has probably been due to the multiple aims of selection necessary to satisfy all those interested in the artificial breeding movement and to the methods which have been used to evaluate bulls. A method has been designed aimed at improving this evaluation.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1954 , 1954 , pp. 75 - 82
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1954

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