Breeding beef cattle for an extended productive life: Evaluation of selection criteria in the Retinta breed

We characterized genetically the longevity and the productive life of beef cows considering three different traits: length of true life (LTL), the length of productive life (LPL) and a number of calvings (NC), in the Retinta breed. Data considered in the analysis were collected in 30 Spanish herds a...

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Autores principales: Morales, R., Phocas, F., Solé, M., Demyda Peyrás, Sebastián, Menéndez Buxadera, A., Molina, A.
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Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/118316
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topic Ciencias Veterinarias
Beef cattle
Functional longevity
Survival
Weibull
spellingShingle Ciencias Veterinarias
Beef cattle
Functional longevity
Survival
Weibull
Morales, R.
Phocas, F.
Solé, M.
Demyda Peyrás, Sebastián
Menéndez Buxadera, A.
Molina, A.
Breeding beef cattle for an extended productive life: Evaluation of selection criteria in the Retinta breed
topic_facet Ciencias Veterinarias
Beef cattle
Functional longevity
Survival
Weibull
description We characterized genetically the longevity and the productive life of beef cows considering three different traits: length of true life (LTL), the length of productive life (LPL) and a number of calvings (NC), in the Retinta breed. Data considered in the analysis were collected in 30 Spanish herds and consisted of 3187 cows born between 1993 and 2013: 1802 cows had complete information while 1385 cows had censored information. Pedigree information accounted for 7359 individuals and the genetic evaluation was performed under an animal model using the Weibull proportional hazard model for survival analysis. Results indicated that cow effects (age at first calving, herd, season-year of cow birth), as well as some calf effects (breed group, season-year of birth), were significant (P<0.05) for all traits; however, sex of calves did not affect the traits. The low heritabilities obtained for LTL and LPL (0.14±0.01 and 0.14±0.01 respectively) and modest heritability for NC (0.30±0.01), suggest that a higher response to selection can be expected for NC than for LTL and LPL.
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author Morales, R.
Phocas, F.
Solé, M.
Demyda Peyrás, Sebastián
Menéndez Buxadera, A.
Molina, A.
author_facet Morales, R.
Phocas, F.
Solé, M.
Demyda Peyrás, Sebastián
Menéndez Buxadera, A.
Molina, A.
author_sort Morales, R.
title Breeding beef cattle for an extended productive life: Evaluation of selection criteria in the Retinta breed
title_short Breeding beef cattle for an extended productive life: Evaluation of selection criteria in the Retinta breed
title_full Breeding beef cattle for an extended productive life: Evaluation of selection criteria in the Retinta breed
title_fullStr Breeding beef cattle for an extended productive life: Evaluation of selection criteria in the Retinta breed
title_full_unstemmed Breeding beef cattle for an extended productive life: Evaluation of selection criteria in the Retinta breed
title_sort breeding beef cattle for an extended productive life: evaluation of selection criteria in the retinta breed
publishDate 2017
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/118316
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