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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 69, Issue 12 4793-4800, Copyright © 1991 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Genetic, phenotypic, and environmental parameter estimates of calving difficulty, weight, and measures of pelvic size in beef heifers

A. Naazie, M. Makarechian and R. T. Berg
Dept. of Anim. Sci., University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

The heritabilities for and the genetic, phenotypic, and environmental correlations among calving difficulty scores (CDS) and measures of size of the pelvic inlet were estimated using 547 records of 2-yr-old heifers from three synthetic breed groups. Calving difficulty score was treated first as a trait of the dam and then as a trait of the calf and was analyzed on three scales: raw scores from 0 to 3 (0 = normal birth, 3 = most difficult delivery requiring a hard pull, veterinary assistance, or surgical intervention), Snell-transformed scores, and a binary (0, 1) scale. Estimates of heritability for CDS as a trait of the dam were similar to those when it was considered a trait of the calf. Heritability estimates for CDS on the raw and transformed scales were similar and moderate in magnitude (.36 +/- .15 to .47 +/- .18) but were higher than most reported estimates. However, on the binary scale the estimates were lower (.26 +/- .17, .28 +/- .14). Estimates of heritability for the horizontal and vertical pelvic diameters and the pelvic area were high, implying that pelvic size in heifers might be readily modified by selection. The genetic and phenotypic correlations between CDS as a dam trait and pelvic dimensions were low, whereas the correlations between CDS and dam weight at calving were moderate. As a calf trait, CDS was highly correlated genetically with calf birth weight, but the phenotypic correlations were moderate.


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