Functional Traits Working Group
The page shows introductory information about the Functional Traits Working Group, its composition and documents produced by the WG
Chairperson
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Christa Egger-Danner |
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Members
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Andrew John Bradley |
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| Noureddine Charfeddine CONAFE(Spain) |
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B. Cole |
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Nicolas Gengler |
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Bjorg Heringstad |
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Jennie Pryce |
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Kathrin F. Stock |
The Members of the Functional Traits Working Group in 2013
at Aarhus with Ole Klejs Hansen .
Documents
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The ICAR Claw Health Atlas is available here while the page containing the many translations of the Atlas into different languages and the posters is available here
- EuroTier – Claw health dialogue between science and practice
- Review paper on metabolic disorder
- Female fertility guidelines
- Scientific manuscript published on “Animal” (12 Nov. 2014). “Invited review: overview of new traits and phenotyping strategies in dairy cattle with a focus on functional traits (C. Egger-Danner, J. B. Cole, J. E. Pryce, N. Gengler, B. Heringstad, A. Bradley and K. F. Stock)
- Files presented in Berlin (May 2014) at the meeting of the Functional Traits Session
- ICAR Technical Series: Health Data Conference in Aarhus 2013
- Health guidelines and health key
- Report of the WG for the year 2012, presented in Aarhus, May 2013 (Slides)
Activities
The objective of the working group is to write a portfolio of recommendation sheets on recording, evaluation and genetic improvement for functional traits in dairy cattle.
Recent priorities of work are:
- General health – Guidelines approved 2012
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Health workshop – Organised in Aarhus 2013
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Udder health – Guidelines in process of updating
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Female fertility – Guidelines approved at the 39th ICAR Biennial Session (Berlin, May 2014)
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Calving ease and stillbirth +
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Feet and legs problems – publication of ICAR Claw Health Atlas June 2015
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Workability ++
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Survival ++