Connectedness among herds of beef cattle bred under natural service

Table 1 Average reliabilities of individual animals in single trait evaluations with different heritabilities (h²)

h²	Model	Animals with data	Sires with progeny						Dams
			0-30	30-60	60-90	90-120	120-150	>150
0.40	Sire nr¹		0.38	0.68	0.72	0.74	0.74	0.90
	Sire		0.40	0.69	0.74	0.75	0.75	0.91
	Animal	0.51	0.49	0.79	0.84	0.85	0.83	0.91	0.26
0.25	Sire nr		0.30	0.60	0.66	0.69	0.69	0.86
	Sire		0.32	0.62	0.68	0.70	0.70	0.87
	Animal	0.37	0.39	0.69	0.76	0.79	0.77	0.86	0.18
0.10	Sire nr		0.17	0.42	0.51	0.55	0.57	0.74
	Sire		0.19	0.45	0.53	0.57	0.58	0.77
	Animal	0.22	0.23	0.48	0.58	0.63	0.63	0.75	0.09
Number		28546	364	97	52	22	17	23	6354

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