Angus National Cattle Evaluation --
Fall 2008
| Angus Trait Heritabilities and Genetic Correlations | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Trait | CED | BW | WW | PG | YH | SC | CEM | MILK | MW | MH | ||||||||||
| Calving ease direct (CED) | .181 | -.76 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth wt direct(BW) | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weaning direct (WW) | 0.20 | 0.152 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Postweaning gain (PG) | 0.20 | 0.543 | 0.293 | |||||||||||||||||
| Yearling ht (YH) | 0.45 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scrotal circumference (SC) | 0.43 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Calving ease maternal (CEM) | .124 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Maternal milk | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mature wt (MW) | 0.55 | 0.80 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mature ht (MH) | 0.82 | |||||||||||||||||||
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1Heritability estimates are on the diagonal. 2Upper off-diagonals are genetic correlations. 3Genetic correlation between 365-d yearling weight and SC or YH. 4Maternal component only. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genetic parameters for carcass traits are published by the Journal of Animal Science at http://jas.fass.org/, MacNeil and Northcutt (2008).