Records of body weight at selection of Nelore cattle pertaining to the Sertãozinho’s Experimental Station (SP-Brasil) Nelore herds were used to study the influence of the incorporation of additional information on the estimation of annual genetic trend by least squares and mixed model methodologies. The genetic changes in all three Nelore herds (control-NeC and selected-NeS and NeT) or only in the selected ones (NeS and NeT) were estimated, only for the females, by least squares, by mixed model including their […]

It was utilized data from 188 animals from ten genetic groups. For the statistical analysis, the animals were grouped into three subgroups according to age, sex and diet. Thus, the subgroups analyzed were: 1) intacted yearling males receiving the “a” ration: 39 Nellore (N), 12 Brangus (BR), 8 1/2 Simmental – 1/2 Nellore (SN), 8 1/2 Caracu – 1/2 Nellore (CCN), 21 1/2 Valdostana – 1/2 Nellore (VAN); 2) intacted weaned males receiving the “b” diet: 12 N, 12 1/2 […]

The aim of this experiment was to compare the efficiency of a hormonal protocol, associated to the temporary weaning for 96 hours, with the definitive weaning at 60 days in beef cows, for the induction of estrus and ovulation. One hundred and eighty-three suckled beef cows were used. The breeds of the cows were Charolais (C) and Nellore (N) and their crosses. The animals were genotyped as homozygous (HOM) and heterozigous (HET) for the microsatellite BMS3004, that is localized in […]

Records of 24,703 Nelore cattle from six herds were used to estimate coefficients of heritability for probability of pregnancy at 14 months (PP14) and hip height (HH) traits. For PP14, the mathematical model included as fixed effects the contemporary groups (181 groups) and dam age class at calving (7 classes) and for HH only contemporary groups (584 groups). Random effects included were genetic additive of sire and residual effects. Variance and covariance components were obtained by method Â. Heritability estimates […]

A total of 335 records of swine litters from 102 Large White females that farrowed between 1985 and 1996, born in the seasons of september to february and march to august, in the Recife city, in Pernambuco state (Brazil), were analysed. The objective was to compare regression equations to predict stillborn rates. Angular transformation (TA), a generalized linear model (GLM) with binomial distribution and logit link (BL), a Poisson GLM with log link (PL), a mixed GLM (GLMM) with binomial […]

Fourteen random regression models were used to adjust 86,595 test-day milk records of 2,155 first lactation of native Caracu cows. The models include fixed effects of contemporary group and age of cow as covariable. A cubic regression on Legendre orthogonal polynomial of days in milk was used to model the mean trend and the additive genetic and permanent environmental regressions. Different structures of residual variances were tried and considered through homogeneous variances or heterogeneous variances, modeled as a step function […]

The purpose of this study was to analyse of the stayability trait (STAY) of Nelore cows. Stayability was defined as the probability of calving at a specific age, or after that age, given that the cow calved at least one time prior to that age. The study focused specifically on six year old groups, and the information corresponding to 55,682 animals were analysed. The data were analysed based on an a posteriori maximum threshold model to predict the genetic values, […]

The genus Brachiaria encompasses about one hundred species and the correct classification of the accessions involved in the breeding programs is of great interest for the genetic improvement of this forage species. Three hundred and one accessions of six different Brachiaria species were analyzed, in which vegetative, reproductive and pubescence characteristics were evaluated. Anderson’s discriminant analyses were conducted for each one of the three groups of morphological traits and discriminant functions were established for the six species. Rates of correct […]

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the composition and average daily milk yield of Charolais (CH) and Nellore (NE) cows, mantained on native pasture (NP) or winter (oat plus italian rye grass) and summer (alexander grass) cultivated pasture (CP). Sixty cows nursing straightbred or crossbred calfs were used, during 182 days, according to the following treatments: CHNP = CH cows mantained on NP; NENP = NE cows mantained on NP; CHCP = CH cows mantained on CP; and […]

The objectives of this study were to estimate variances and covariances and to evaluate the genetic trends for body weight at birth (BW), weaning (WW) and twelve months of age (YW) in a Canchim (5/8 Charolais + 3/8 Zebu) herd. Data on 6.517 animals, born from 1953 through 1996, were used to estimate breeding values by the derivative free restricted maximum likelihood method, using a model that included the fixed effects of contemporary group (year-season of birth-sex of calf) and […]