Learning Resources
Fact sheets
- Predicting heifer performance with genomic testing (April2021)
- Feeding the Genes
- Daughter Fertility ABV
- Tips for recording great data
- Heat Tolerance ABV
- Workability Collection
- Australian Genetic Evaluation system
- Genomics for crossbreds
- Gestation Length ABV
- Breeding for improved type
- Calving Ease ABV for Holsteins
- Mastitis Resistance ABV
- About DataGene
- Breeding polled dairy cattle
- Breeding for beter health and welfare
- Introducing DataVat
- DataVat Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Breeding for improved fertility
- Australia’s three breeding indices
- Feed Saved ABV
- Breeding replacements from herd bulls
- Transferring cows between herds
- HerdPlatform
- Selective Dry Cow Tool
- Sustainability Index
- MIR Conception Tool
- Interpreting heifer genomic results
- Within Herd Ranking Tool
Case studies
2023
- Sam Simpson and Mark Billing – South-West Victoria
- Rodney and Nicole May – Western Australia
- Heather Campbell – Northern Victoria
- Hayley Hutt – Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia
- Coates family – Western Victoria
- Conheady family – Western Victoria
- Roderick family – Queensland
- Dale and Karen Angus – South-West Victoria
- Narelle and Mark McDonald – Gippsland, Victoria
2022
- Jelbart Dairy – Gippsland, Victoria
- Ray Kitchen – Western Australia
- Parrish family – NSW
- Dickson family – Western Victoria
- Tim and Marie Humphris – South-West Victoria
- McGrath family – Western Victoria
- Jodi and Brett Loughridge – Gippsland, Victoria
- Peter Fullerton – Western District, Victoria
- O’Sullivan and Jones families – Ireland and Canada
- Place family – South-West Victoria
- Roger and Amanda Heath – Western Victoria
- Lyn and David Parish – Western Victoria
- Andrew Duynhoven – South-West Victoria
- Dickson family – Western Victoria
- Shiona and Caleb Berry – Gippsland Victoria
Technotes
- Female ABVs
- Red Breed Genomics
- Survival and Australian Breeding Indices
- Mastitis Resistance
- Parentage Verification
- Type ABVs
- Feed Saved
- Test Day Model for Production ABVs
- Benefits of herd recording
- Using the Production Index
- Genetic codes
- Rear teat placement ABV
- Haplotypes
- Heat Tolerance ABV
- Gestation Length
- Genomic testing process
- Heterogenous Variation
- Quality reports for genomic service providers
- Calving Ease
- BPI HWI update Dec 2020
- Heifer replacement rates
- Sustainability Index
- Red breeds base
- Transport penalty removed from ASI