Breeding programmes for a wide range of systems

Date: 07 June ‘05; 8:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Wickham (IRL)

Theatre

• A systematic approach to the design and enhancement of breeding programmes (Garrick, D.)
• Practical aspects in setting up a national cattle breeding program for Ireland (Olori, V.E., A.R. Cromie, A. Grogan and B. Wickham)
• Developments in international pig breeding programmes (Merks, J.W.M., E.H.A.T. Hanenberg and E.F. Knol)
• Collaboration of breeding programs with genotype by environment interaction: possibilities and limitations (Mulder, H.A., R.F. Veerkamp and P. Bijma)
• Cattle breeding programs for environments with poor formal information: Integrating traditional breeding knowledge and local breeding strategies - the case of The Gambia (Steglich, M. and K.-J. Peters)
• Improving carcass quality of UK hill sheep using Computerised Tomography (CT) (Conington, J., N. Lambe, P. Amer, S. Bishop, L. Bünger and G. Simm)
• Genetic evaluation of multibreed dairy sires in five environmental clusters within New Zealand (Bryant, J.R., N. Lopez-Villalobos, J.E. Pryce and C.W. Holmes)
• A selection index for Ontario organic dairy farmers (Rozzi, P. and F. Miglior)
• Environmental influences on genetic and phenotypic relationships between production and health and fertility in Dutch dairy cows (Windig, J.J., M.P.L. Calus, B. Beerda, W. Ouweltjes and R.F. Veerkamp)
• Use of structured antedependence models to estimate genotype by environment interaction (Calus, M.P.L., F. Jaffrézic and R.F. Veerkamp)
• Possibility and profitability of crossbreeding in Holstein dairy cattle (König, S. and H. Simianer)