HERITABILITY is a commonly raised subject among producers seeking to improve their selection decisions. Often the term is used by people without truly understanding what it is describing, or how it is determined.
Without this basic understanding, making decisions that are more effective in improving the performance of cattle in a herd becomes more difficult.
In practice, bull breeders and commercial livestock producers seek to produce livestock that have superior performance over that displayed by their current breeding animals. Determining how great that improvement within those…
