Estimation of Genetic Parameters of Heat Tolerance for Production Traits in Canadian Holsteins Cattle.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how cows respond to heat stress has helped to provide effective herd management practices to tackle this environmental challenge. The possibility of selecting animals that are genetically more heat tolerant may provide additional means to maintain or even improve the productivity of the Canadian dairy industry, which is facing a shifting environment due to climate changes. The objective of this study was to estimate the genetic parameters for heat tolerance of milk, fat, and protein yields in Canadian Holstein cows. A total of 1.3 million test-day records from 195,448 first-parity cows were available. A repeatability test-day model fitting a reaction norm on the temperature-humidity index (THI) was used to estimate the genetic parameters. The estimated genetic correlations be

SUBMITTER: Campos IL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9774245 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature