Design and Role of an Information Nucleus in Sheep Breeding Programmes

Julius H Van Der Werf; Brian Kinghorn; Robert Banks

Design and Role of an Information Nucleus in Sheep Breeding Programmes

Julius H Van Der Werf
, Brian Kinghorn
, Robert Banks

School of Environmental & Rural Science

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Outline: • Need for information in breeding programs • The concept of information nucleus • Current design • Future role ... Genetic Improvement: • Trying to get all animals at least as good as the best! • Improve by repeatedly selecting the best parents • Need to measure these traits that we want to improve! • Add up improvement across all traits > improve profit

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Sheep CRC 2010: Sheep CRC Research Conference: Transforming Wool, Meat & the Sheep that produce them - Adelaide, Australia Duration: 20 Oct 2010 → 21 Oct 2010

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Conference	Sheep CRC 2010: Sheep CRC Research Conference: Transforming Wool, Meat & the Sheep that produce them
City	Adelaide, Australia
Period	20/10/10 → 21/10/10

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Animal Breeding

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