Performance Recording of Animals presents advancing new technical standards for identification, performance testing, as well as a discussion of global priorities for livestock management.
Features:
- The latest genetic improvement techniques for the global dairy industry
- The potential to create an international beef evaluation system
- New tools to improve the fertility of dairy cows
Contents
Keynote presentations
- Animal production in Tunisia
- New services for sustainable animal farming
- Animal recording for low to medium input production systems
- The role of breeders organisations in the BSE crisis
Morphology evaluation and recording of functional traits
- The use of direct udder scanning to evaluate udder cistern size in dairy cows
- Image analysis and udder linear trait classification in dairy ewes
- Technical assistance developments for fertility problems for
Tunisian livestock systems: AIA and OEP cooperation
- Genetic analyses of fertility parameters and their relations to
milk yield of Holstein-Friesian cows in Tunisia
- Use of the fat tail and body scores to estimate lamb weights in fat tailed meat sheep
Performance recording for small ruminants
- Constraints and challenges of growth recording in meat sheep
- Minimum sequential records to adequately fit growth curve in fat-tailed Barbarine lambs and
implications on genetic evaluation
- Current challenge for milk recording in dairy sheep and goats: the simplification of milk sampling
design for chemical composition and somatic cell counts of milk
- Milk recording for goats and dairy cattle in France: Individual qualification of the lactation
- The Sicilo Sarde dairy sheep in Tunisia: threats and strength
- Prediction of daily and total lactation milk yield of the
Chios sheep from single milking records
- Evaluation and definition of reference lactation length in Chios dairy sheep
Performance recording of beef traits
- A new information system for beef performance recording in France
- Implementing a PDA based field recording system for beef cattle in Ireland
- Organisation of beef cattle recording and breeding in Hungary
- L’utilisation de PDA pour collecter les données du contrôle de
performances des aptitudes bouchères
- Advances in using nationally recorded data to address breeding
objectives in beef cattle breeding
Performance recording of dairy cattle
- Study of the milk somatic cell count in Tunisian dairy herds
- Official milk recording with automatic milking systems: the italian situation
- Methods of milk recording for 3-, 4-, and 6-times daily milking in Germany
- Trends in milk recording of the Holstein breed in Brazil
- Argentine genetic evaluation. Results of bull performance
- Future changes in the organization of milk yield recording in Spain
- Organization of milk recording and milk quality control in Croatia
Scientific presentations
- pH – A useful by-product in infrared analysis for DHI quality assurance
- Simplification of milk recording in dairy cattle for low input systems
- Detection of consequences of NEB based on milk production
records of Dutch Black-and-White Holsteins
- Comparison of protocols to estimate 24 hour percent fat and protein
- Changes in milk yield and milk composition as a consequence of the
omission of one milking weekly in dairy cows
- Benefits from daily milk recording data
- Milk Recording: a comparison of the T, Z and standard methods (Z = Milk yield
recorded on 2 milkings and the Contents on one alternate milking)
- Dairy cattle performance recording in the context of integrated farming
- Modelling lactation curves for Irish dairy cows
- Deep frozen raw milk standards. The way from reference methods to reference systems
Presentation of Sub-Committees, Task Force and Working Groups
- Report of the activities of Sub Committees, Task Force and Working Groups
- Report of the Sub-Committee on Animal Identification
- Report of the ICAR Working Group on Animal Recording Data
- Report from Meters & Jars Sub Committee
- Report of the ICAR Working Group on Lactation Calculation Methods
- ICAR Working Group on Milk Testing Laboratories: Biennial
report of activities in 2002-2003
- Report of the Conformation Recording Working Group
- Report of the ICAR Working Group on Functional Traits
- Report on activities of the ICAR Beef Group
- Interbull Report for 2002 and 2003
- ICAR Working Group on AI and other relevant
technologies. Summary Report 2003-2004
- Report of the Working Group on milk recording of sheep
- Report of the Working Group on Goat Milk Recording
- Report of the Genetic Analysis Working Group (GAWG)
Mixed session with emphasis on traceability and animal health recording
- Establishing a shared cattle breeding database: Recent experiences in Ireland
- Milk recording logistics
- The use of ICAR test procedures for electronic animal identification
- Implementation of animal identification and registration
system with farm products traceability
- Results of the IDEA project on cattle, sheep and goats in Spain
- Comparison of current costs of using conventional and electronic
identification for sheep and goats in Spain
- Harmonised protocol for the evaluation of milk analysers and
their international approval for milk recording
- Quarter milk flow patterns: possible effect on SCC
- Development of a Hanwoo (Korean Brown; a beef cattle) tracing
system using RF technology in Korea
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