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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 79, Issue 1 45-51, Copyright © 2001 by American Society of Animal Science
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G. L. Bennett and K. E. Gregory
USDA, ARS, Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE 68933-0166, USA. bennett@email.marc.usda.gov
Heritability of 2-yr-old heifer calving difficulty score was estimated in nine purebred and three composite populations with a total of 5,986 calving difficulty scores from 520 sires and 388 maternal grandsires. Estimates were 0.43 for direct (calf) genetic effects and 0.23 for maternal (heifer) genetic effects. The correlation between direct and maternal effects was -0.26. Direct effects were strongly positively correlated with birth weight and moderately correlated with 200-d weight and postweaning gain. Smaller negative correlations of maternal calving difficulty with direct effects of birth weight, weaning weight, and postweaning gain were estimated. Calving difficulty was scored from 1 to 7. Predicted heritabilities using seven optimal scores were similar to those using four scores. The predicted heritability using only two categories was reduced 23%. Phenotypic and direct genetic variance increased with increasing average population calving difficulty score. The estimated direct and maternal heritabilities for 2-yr-old calving difficulty score were larger than many literature estimates. These estimates suggested substantial variance for direct and maternal genetic effects. The direct effects of 2-yr-old calving difficulty score seemed to be much more closely tied to birth weight than were maternal effects.
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