Connectedness among herds of beef cattle bred under natural service

Table 2 Average reliabilities for the lowly heritable trait (h² = 0.10) of individual animals in multiple trait evaluations

Model¹			Animals with data	Sires with progeny						Dams
h²	r_g	r_e		0-30	30-60	60-90	90-120	120-150	>150
ST			0.22	0.23	0.48	0.58	0.63	0.63	0.75	0.09
0.25	-0.25	-0.25	0.22	0.23	0.50	0.58	0.64	0.63	0.75	0.09
0.25	-0.25	0	0.23	0.24	0.50	0.59	0.65	0.63	0.76	0.10
0.40	-0.5	-0.5	0.25	0.25	0.51	0.59	0.65	0.64	0.76	0.11
0.40	-0.5	0	0.29	0.29	0.54	0.61	0.67	0.65	0.77	0.13
Number			28546	364	97	52	22	17	23	6354

¹ Trait evaluated jointly with another trait with heritability (h²) and genetic correlation (r_g) and residual correlation (r_e) except in the single trait evaluation (ST)

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