Page 13 - Waimara Angus Catalogue ebook

ACCURACY RANGE INTERPRETATION
EBV should be considered as a preliminary estimate. It could change
less than 50%
substantially as more performance information becomes available.
Medium accuracy, usually based on the animal’s own records and
50-74% pedigree. Still subject to substantial changes with more information,
particularly when the performance of progeny are analysed.
Medium - high accuracy and includes some progeny information.
75-90%
Becoming a more reliable indicator of the animal’s value as a parent.
High accuracy estimate of the animal’s true breeding value. It is
more than 90% unlikely that the EBV will change much with the addition of more
progeny data.

Heritabilities Estimates in Angus

35%
65% 40% The amount of environmental(non-genetic)
60% influence in a trait.

55%
60% 61% 59% 45%
65% 41% 66%
68% 35% 40% 39% 68% 68%

32% 77% 34% 32% 32%

86% 88% 23% The amount of genetic influence

14% 90% 93%
12% 10% 7% in a trait.

Calving Ease Dir Gestation Length Birth Wt 200-Day Wt 400-Day Wt 600-Day Wt Mature Cow Wt Milk Scrotal Size Days to Calving Carcass Wt Eye Muscle Area Rib Fat Rump Fat Retail Beef Yield % Intra-muscular

Waimãra Angus 11