An individual to be present in the EBV IBEEF file must fullfil one the following requirements

1. at least 1 parent

2. at least parent of another individual

3. at least 1 own phenotype

4. coded as “official” in the sending country

Data from 12 countries were included in the evaluation:

IRL, CZE, DFS*, FRA, DEU, CHE, ZAF, AUS, SVN, LVA, EST and ITA

*) DFS => Populations code for Denmark, Finland and Sweden

Direct Component

Direct Component

January Run

1. Each Organisation providing data for a specific breed-trait(s) evaluation will receive:

• evaluations’ results for all animals included in the related breed-traits group evaluation, for the trait(s) the Organisation provided the data, expressed on its own base and scale and dedicated exclusively for the purpose of international genetic evaluation;

• evaluations’ results for all animals included in the related breed-traits group evaluation, for the trait(s) the Organisation provided the data, expressed on base and scale of all Organisations participating in the same breed-trait(s) evaluation. These results may only be used for internal validation purposes.

The use of these two kinds of results for any other purposes must be regulated by specific contracts agreed with all other Organisations involved in the specific evaluation.

1. In terms of publishing evaluations’ results, each Organisation is allowed to publish only results expressed on its own base and scale contained in the files {trt}MDpub{BRD}runid.csv, related to animals identified as publishable according to Interbeef publication rules.

1. Individual Organisations are responsible for publishing results of the international evaluations according to their own requirements; publication should distinguish between the Organisation’s domestic predicted genetic merits and the international predicted genetic merits.

• 3-trait animal model
• trait 1: weight 30-120 days
• trait 2: weight 120-210 days
• trait 3: weight 210-365 days

\(\scriptsize y=CG + Sex + Twins + b*Age_{ind}+b^2*Age_{ind}+b*Age_{dam}+b^2*Age_{dam}+A+e\)

\[EBV_{ITBEEF}=a + b*EBV_{ITA}\]

\[EBV_{ITA}=a + b*EBV_{ITBEEF}\]

Trend mean EBV by SEX

Trend sd EBV by SEX

Trend REL by SEX