Download or read book Measuring the Breeding Value of Dairy Sires by the Records of Their First Few Advanced Registry Daughters (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Alexander Davidson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Measuring the Breeding Value of Dairy Sires by the Records of Their First Few Advanced Registry Daughters The breeding value of dairy sires lies mainly in their ability to transmit to their offspring factors for high milk and butterfat produc tion. The fact that all sires are not equal in this respect makes it necessary to select for breeding purposes only those sires transmitting the largest number of such factors. An expression of this transmitting ability may be found in part in the milk and butterfat productions of the daughters, and it is by means of these productions that breeders in general have measured the breeding value of dairy sires. This method of measuring breeding values, altho used extensively at the present time, is open to several objections. The productions of the daughters used in measuring the breeding value of dairy sires are those that are recorded in the advanced registers of the various purebred dairy cattle associations; daughters with records in these registers have fulfilled certain production requirements and are spoken of as tested daughters. The tested daughters of a sire, in most cases, represent only his best daughters, which are a small percentage of all his daughters. This selection is due in part to the requirements of'the advanced registers, but in the main to the fact that under the present system of advanced registry testing it is exceedingly unprofitable to test daughters other than those showing signs of high producing ability. The productions of only the tested daughters, there fore, do not provide an absolute basis upon which to measure the breeding value of the sires. However, since the tested daughters of all sires have been subjected to the same type of selection, their produc tions provide a uniform basis and may be used as a means of measure ment with the limitation that they will give only relative results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.