All bulls included were housed at the same performance testing station (the only one in Sweden) and on arrival, at approximately six months of age, they were divided into groups of 10-20 animals, based on breed and body weight.
Interpretation of pathologic change requires an understanding of expected 'normal' findings based on breed and species.
In Exp. 1, a total of 43 gestating sows (d 81 92 of gestation) were allotted to 0 (n=1500 500 (n=16), or 1000 (n=12) ppm of CSB supplementation based on breed, parity and body weight (BW), and then fed treatment diets until weaning.
Based on breed histories and geographical origin, a total of 12 geographic breed groups were defined as follows: India (2 breeds), Africa (1), Southwest Asia (7), Podolian (12), Iberian (31), Central (30), British (10), Nordic (14), Baltic Red (9), North-West (5), Lowland Pied (9) and Eastern (8).
Handicapping is mainly based on breed, age, and sex.
Don't choose a bit based on breed or gait.
The multidimensional scaling plots based on breed-specific genomic kinship showed a high degree of overlap between cases and controls.
Since the weights of the individual dogs are not comparable due to differences in age and decreased body weight as secondary effect of the phenotype, we used the mean expected weight of the breed based on the breed standard of the Dutch Kennel Club.
However, the use of G D led to a major decrease in accuracy when selecting bulls of one breed based on cows of another breed as can be seen in the average negative accuracy of 0. Also, negative estimates of bias were obtained when using G D in across-breed predictions, either within-sex (Table 6) or across sexes (Table 8).
There were also three composite breeds considered, based on the breed composition of the New Zealand sheep industry.
