Use of sire evaluations for first, all, and later lactations to predict lifetime profit functions of individual daughters

Beaudry, Thomas Fernand2014-12-112014-12-111986-07-14etd-12182013-040020http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51125Sire evaluations from first, all, and later lactations for Predicted Difference milk, fat, and dollars on 226 sires were used to predict deviated relative net income. Eleven different relative net incomes were calculated on 176,902 individual cows. Low, medium and high values were used for lifetime product value and feed price. Lifetime product value was actual milk and fat production. Individual relative net income was deviated from contemporaries in the same herd and calving in the same year of first freshening.xiii, 141 leavesapplication/pdfen-USCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesLD5655.V855 1986.B429Dairy cattleMilk yieldUse of sire evaluations for first, all, and later lactations to predict lifetime profit functions of individual daughtersThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12182013-040020/