ATTENDEES at a recent livestock conference were granted an exclusive opportunity to delve into early Southern Multi Breed Project data, igniting fresh optimism for future fertility EBVs.
Dr Kath Donoghue, a principal investigator for the project, shared her findings at the 25th Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics conference in Perth last week, shedding light on the dynamics between age at puberty, days to calving, and first parity return to oestrus in Australian temperate beef breeds.
“For various reasons genetic improvement for fertility…