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dc.contributor.authorMcHugh, N.
dc.contributor.authorPabiou, T.
dc.contributor.authorMcDermott, K.
dc.contributor.authorWall, E.
dc.contributor.authorBerry, D. P.
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-29T13:49:10Z
dc.date.available2024-02-29T13:49:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-01
dc.identifier.citationN. McHugh, T. Pabiou, K. McDermott, E. Wall, D. P. Berry, Impact of birth and rearing type, as well as inaccuracy of recording, on pre-weaning lamb phenotypic and genetic merit for live weight, Translational Animal Science, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 137–145, https://doi.org/10.2527/tas2017.0015en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11019/3688
dc.descriptionpeer-revieweden_US
dc.description.abstractThe objective of the present study was to quantify the impact of the systematic environmental effects of both birth and rearing type on pre-weaning lamb live weight, and to evaluate the repercussions of inaccurate recording of birth and rearing type on subsequent genetic evaluations. A total of 32,548 birth weight records, 35,770 forty-day weight records and 32,548 records for average daily gain (ADG) between birth and 40-day weight from the Irish national sheep database were used. For each lamb, a new variable, birth-rearing type, reflecting both the birth and rearing type of a lamb was generated by concatenating both parameters. The association between birth-rearing type and birth weight, 40-day weight, and ADG was estimated using linear mixed models. The repercussions of inaccurate recording of birth type were determined by quantifying the impact on sire estimated breeding value (EBV; with an accuracy of ≥ 35%), where one of the lambs born in a selection of twin litter births was assumed to have died at birth but the farmer recorded the birth and rearing type as a singleton. The heaviest mean birth weight was associated with lambs born and subsequently reared as singles (5.47 kg); the lightest mean birth weight was associated with lambs born and reared as triplets (4.10 kg). The association between birth-rearing type and 40-day weight differed by dam parity (P < 0.001). Lambs reared by first parity dams as singles, irrespective of birth type were, on average, heavier at 40-day weighing than lambs reared as multiples, but as parity number increased, single-born lambs reared as twins outperformed triplet-born lambs reared as singles. Irrespective of the trait evaluated, the correlation between sire EBV estimated from the accurately recorded data and sire EBV estimated from the data with recording errors was strong ranging from 0.93 (birth weight) to 0.97 (ADG). The EBV for sires with progeny data manipulated were 0.14 kg, 0.34 kg and 5.56 g/d less for birth weight, 40-day weight and ADG, respectively, compared to their equivalent EBV calculated using accurately recorded data. Results from this study highlight the importance of precise recording of birth-rearing type by producers for the generation of accurate genetic evaluations.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Department of Agriculture
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTranslational Animal Science;Vol 1
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/*
dc.subjectbirth typeen_US
dc.subjectlive weighten_US
dc.subjectrearing typeen_US
dc.subjectsheepen_US
dc.titleImpact of birth and rearing type, as well as inaccuracy of recording, on pre-weaning lamb phenotypic and genetic merit for live weight1en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2527/tas2017.0015
dc.source.volume1
dc.source.issue2
dc.source.beginpage137
dc.source.endpage145
refterms.dateFOA2024-02-29T13:49:11Z
dc.source.journaltitleTranslational Animal Science


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