Defining breeding goal and setting up a breeding program
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What are the 2 main questions for setting up a breeding program?
2 - How to go there?
What are the 7 steps of setting up a breeding program?
2 - Formulate breeding goal
3 - Data recording
4 - Breeding value estemation and selection criteria
5 - Selection and mating
6 - Dissemination
7 - Evaluate breeding program
What charasteristics has a breeding goal?
- The breeding goal should ideally summarize all traits in a single criterion
- The breeding goal contains breeding values
- The breeding goal contains (economic) values to weigh the traits
- The breeding goal should aim at the future
- Breeding goals may contain economic and non-economic weights
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So what is the formula of the breeding goal?
What are the 2 common approaches to define breeding goals?
- To express the breeding goal as a set of desired gains for each trait
What is a profit equation?
What is the profit equation?
How can economic values be calculated?
What are goal factors?
How can breeding goals be expressed?
What is a breeding program?
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