Weight records of 35.308 Tabapuã animals born between 1975 and 2000, made available by the Brazilian Zebu Breeders Association (ABCZ), were used to estimate genetic parameters for growth from birth to 570 days of age. Univariate analyses were used to fit three different models including fixed effects of contemporary group (owner, herd, sex, breeding management, year-month of birth and year-month of weight) and age of calf and age of dam (linear and quadratic) as covariates. Model 1 included only the […]