ADSC 3600 Lecture 9: Beef Production Lecture #9
8 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
*first part of class reviewed homework #3, then worked on homework #4 and turned in since the majority of the class was not here. *prepare for test next week tuesday, february 14th. Carriers of simple recessives: horned gene (pp, red (bb) We use this today most valuable on young animals. Dna data are combined with production data to calculate epds. Regular epds- calving ease epd is based on birth weight and calving ease scores. Genomic enhanced epds are just using 2 sets of scales to measure the same thing. If you add hd 50k info to the pedigree estimate of epd for a young animal, you will increase the accuracy of the epd from about 0. 05 to the following value: look at pwp slide chart. Congenital defects are defects that you are born with: you can have a genetic defect and you can have a defect that"s no genetic.
