Sentence examples for best sire from inspiring English sources

With a low or no constraint on inbreeding, both measures of relationship resulted in the same genetic gain and each method selected the single best sire and dam for all matings.

Giant's Causeway figures amongst the best sires of the modern era while poor old Hawk Wing was shipped off to South Korea.

They are more likely to be offspring of the best sires, but do not have as fancy a pedigree as the big winners themselves, said Alan Shuback, the foreign editor of The Daily Racing Form.

In the 1940s and 1950s breeding relied on the careful recording of every animal in the herd or flock; in the 1970s on artificial insemination by the best sires; and in the 1980s on embryo transfers from the best females into ordinary breeding animals.New genetic analysis now promises to bring in another stage, says the FAO's Henning Steinfeld.

We propose a new measure of quality for sires, in terms of their posterior probability of being among the, say 10% best sires.

However, the problem still exists: the best genetic values and the best sires will compete in the highest level of competition.

Comparison of the rankings of animals between models was performed using two different approximations: a) Correlation of breeding values between models [ 18, 19], and 2) Comparison of the numbers of sires and dams that would have been excluded from the group selected by the simple model per generation, 30 best sires and 100 best dams, in each of the models.

The champion 3-year-old colt of 2006, he is considered by many to be the best young sire in the world.

Between lines, there was a difference of 9.1 in egg number and 1.3 g in egg weight for predicted heterosis for the offspring of the best and worst sire.

Within lines, variation was greatest among the 318 siresres that were mated to the D2 dam-line: there was a difference of 1.0 in egg number and 0.14 g in egg weight between the offspring of the best and worst sires in this cross.

His sire was best at a mile, while the dam was never campaigned over further than a mile and one sixteenth.