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Table 3 Number and percentage of purebred (> 80% pure breed) for Red Dairy Cattle (RDC), Meuse-Rhine-Yssel (MRY), Finncattle (FIC), Swedish Polled (SKB), Vorderwälder (VWD), Hinterwälder (HWD), Traditional Angler (RVA) and Rotes Höhenvieh (RHV) animals born between 2010 and 2018 within different inbreeding levels

From: Inbreeding and pedigree analysis of the European red dairy cattle

 

RDC

MRY

FIC

SKB

VWD

HWD

RVA

RHV

Number of animals

3,180,191

70,005

867

4395

38,234

19

702

187

Number of purebred animals (%)

2,130,052 (67.2)

69,721 (99.6)

167 (19.2)

4204 (95.7)

28,662 (75.0)

7 (36.8)

6 (0.86)

0

Inbreeding classa (%)

 0

19.38

2.53

95.81

12.94

70.79

85.71

83.33

 0 < \(F\)  ≤ 6.26

78.75

79.21

1.80

80.28

25.88

0

0

 6.25 < \(F\)  ≤ 12.50

1.60

16.42

1.80

4.97

2.45

0

0

 12.5 < \(F\)≤ 25.00

0.23

1.75

0.60

1.45

0.77

14.29

16.67

 > 25.00

0.04

0.19

0

0.36

0.10

0

0

Holsteinization (%)

11.3

1.45

10.2

1.6

4.7

4.4

10.8

4.0

  1. aPercentage of purebred animals
  2. \(F\) = inbreeding coefficient