Browse Editions: February 2011

Irish dairy producers successfully use genomically selected sires

Posted in Animal Health, Welfare & Behaviour, Dairy, Food quality and security on February 28th, 2011

The implementation of genomic evaluations in Ireland has been very successful and the uptake of the genomically selected (GS) bulls has been encouraging with dairy producers using several bulls as recommended to reduce the risks.

Calving ease proofs will rate sires for calving performance

Posted in Animal Health, Welfare & Behaviour, Dairy on February 28th, 2011

Having calving ease proofs available will help dairy producers to identify bulls that are genetically good (or bad) for calving performance.

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