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Short Communication

Genetic parameters for rank of the Santa Inês sheep in agricultural fairs using Bayesian procedures

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Pages 604-609 | Received 12 Jun 2016, Accepted 05 Sep 2016, Published online: 02 Nov 2016

Figures & data

Figure 1. Histograms of the total scores (TS) received by Santa Inês sheep in official agricultural fairs in Brazil, before (left) and after (right) data logarithmic transformation.

Figure 1. Histograms of the total scores (TS) received by Santa Inês sheep in official agricultural fairs in Brazil, before (left) and after (right) data logarithmic transformation.

Table 1. Number of observations by sex after preliminary filtering analysis for animals that competed by age categories in Santa Inês sheep’s official judgement championships performed at different agricultural fairs in Brazil.

Table 2. Individual scores attributed to the awards received by Santa Inês sheep in official agricultural fairs in Brazil.

Figure 2. Posteriori density for the heritability for the ability of an animal to rank among the top three in championships by category of age (ABI3) and the total score (TS) measured in championships of the Santa Inês sheep.

Figure 2. Posteriori density for the heritability for the ability of an animal to rank among the top three in championships by category of age (ABI3) and the total score (TS) measured in championships of the Santa Inês sheep.

Table 3. Number of observations (n), number of known sires and dams on pedigree, mean ± standard deviation, minimum (Min) and maximum (Max) for the ability of an animal to rank among the top three in age categories (ABI3) and its total score (TS) measured in judgement championships of the Santa Inês breed sheep occurred at different agricultural fairs.

Table 4. Variance components, heritability and repeatability for the ability of an animal to rank among the top three in age categories (ABI3) and its total score (TS) measured in judgement championships of the Santa Inês breed sheep occurred at different agricultural fairs.