The use of specialised sire and dam lines in selection for meat production

Author:

Smith Charles

Abstract

Progress by selecting in a single line for overall merit is compared with the progress by selecting and crossing specialised sire and dam lines. The sire line is selected for growth and carcass traits, the dam line for number of offspring produced. The rate of improvement through specialised lines is never less than that in a single line and can be considerably greater but only i f there is an unfavourable genetic correlation between progeny number and performance and if there is a certain balance between the heritabilities and economic weights of the two sets of traits. In a sire line the selection may ignore progeny number without loss in efficiency but in a dam line progeny growth and carcass performance must be considered in addition to the number of offspring or else substantial losses in the efficiency of improvement may be suffered.From estimates of the relative economic weights and relative heritabilities of number of progeny produced and the efficiency of feed conversion in several meat species it was concluded that selecting in specialised lines will have little advantage over selecting for overall performance in a single line.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology

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