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Using blup to estimate responses est a sheep flock selected for litter size

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

G.E. Pollott
G.E. Pollott*
Affiliation:
Wye College-University of London, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5AH)
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The reproductive performance of ewes is an important contributor to flock profitability in many different situations. Although the heritability of reproductive traits is low there is often enough phenotypic variance to make a consideration of selection a possibility for improvement in litter size. Genetic trends in selection experiments have traditionally been monitored using a control flock which should be kept as an unseletced group. The recent availability of user friedly BLUP programs have added an extra method for estimating genetic trends. This paper reports the use of BLUP to estimate the genetic trends in a sheep population selected for litter size.

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Genetics
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 105
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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