Having recommended the CDI site, I thought I should check it out and am glad I did, with the recent redesign of that site(which I like)the default is now to Holstein bulls only, but there is still a way in follow this link
Thanks to Colin and Rob, I hope the EGCS President takes note! Bull selector is available for Guernseys within the CDI pages (link below on the left), but with the limited number of proven bulls available in the UK,one has to limit the number of traits that one specifies. Unfortunately …
There are many factors affecting fertility, most farms are working at lower staffing levels than ever before, this combined with ever increasing expectations of milk yeild from our cows is probably the major reason for the slip in calving index. Calving index is only 2% heritable in comparison to yeild …
At the South – East AGM it was decided that a fertility index should be shown as a seperate table and NOT in the GMI