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Genetic
Evaluations Available from AIPL
Internet Animal
Queries || Summary Data Tables and Lists ||
Goat Data Tables and Lists || Evaluation
Files || Interim Summary Files
For detailed information about evaluations including
schedules, data exchange formats, and explanation of evaluation calculations,
please refer to the Documentations page.
Evaluations Available on the AIPL Internet Site
Evaluation
Summaries, Tables, and Lists
Available prior to release day:
- Comparison of active
AI bull evaluations between this evaluation and the previous
release.
- Percentile Tables
of Net Merit (NM$), Fluid Merit (FM$) and Cheese Merit (CM$) for
bulls, and NM$ for cows, by breed.
- Elite cow statistics
- Breed means, bases, and heterosis
- Genetic and phenotypic
trend (1960 to present), by breed including: Milk, Fat, Protein,
PL, and SCS
Available at noon on release day:
Available at 1pm Eastern time on the Thursday following release
day:
- Inbreeding
Information by breed including:
- Inbreeding coefficients and trends
- Bulls most related to breed
- Bulls least related to breed (Outcrosses)
Goat Data
Tables and Lists
Goat yield evaluations are updated in July. Type
evaluations are updated in January.
Evaluation
Files
Bulls ·
Cows · Herd Info ·
Goats
Bull and cow evaluation files are available for
download at 1 p.m. on the Monday before release, password protected.
The password for unencrypting the
files is available at 7 a.m. on the day of release. See the
evaluation schedule for the complete listing
of evaluation availability times. A Complete
description of evaluation distribution is also available.
A mirror site with copies of the evaluation files is
available from Dairy Records Management Systems-Raleigh (
ftp://ftp.drpc.ncsu.edu)
Official Bull Evaluation Files (ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/bulls)
File Format 38
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File
Name1 |
No. of records |
File Size (bytes) |
Date |
Bulls Included* |
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38alloff.zip |
274,279
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35,270,121
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Aug 29 2008
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All domestic and
foreign bulls with official evaluations |
38coff.zip |
54,437
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6,716,369
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Aug 29 2008
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All bulls except
Holsteins and Red & White |
38off.zip |
175,960
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25,655,072
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Aug 29 2008
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Bulls with US
daughters or enrolled with NAAB |
38ai.zip |
66,132
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9,990,913
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Aug 29 2008
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All bulls enrolled
with NAAB |
38s.zip |
3,192
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517,769
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Aug 29 2008
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Bulls enrolled with
NAAB, likely to have semen available |
*The status codes (Explanation of status codes) of all bulls that
had active (A) status after the preceding evaluation are set to
inactive (I) because AI status is updated by NAAB after evaluations are
released.
The status updates are provided in a separate file (Status of AI bulls) by
the Thurday following each evaluation release. This text file includes the ID
and status code of all bulls with status of active (A); foreign-sampled, semen
available (F); or limited use (L). |
Non-Official Bull Evaluation
Files2 (
ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/bulls)
File Format 38
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File
Name1 |
No. of Records |
File Size (bytes) |
Date |
Evaluations Included* |
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38usnoff.zip |
8,978
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1,195,218
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Aug 29 2008
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US-only evaluations
for bulls with official Interbull evaluations |
38ibnoff.zip |
24,614
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3,995,449
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Aug 29 2008
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Interbull
evaluations for bulls with official US-only evaluations |
*The status codes (Explanation of status codes) of all bulls that
had active (A) status after the preceding evaluation are set to
inactive (I) because AI status is updated by NAAB after evaluations are
released.
The status updates are provided in a separate file (Status of AI bulls) by
the Thurday following each evaluation release. This text file includes the ID
and status code of all bulls with status of active (A); foreign-sampled, semen
available (F); or limited use (L). |
Interim Summary Files (
ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/bulls)
File Format 38
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File
Name1 |
No. of Records |
File Size (bytes) |
Date |
Summaries Included* |
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38i.zip |
1,147
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70,536
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May 20 2008
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Interim Summaries
for progeny test bulls |
38i.B07.xml |
1,147
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1,141,846
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Nov 21 2007
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Interim Summaries
for progeny test bulls (XML) |
38i.B07.xls |
1,147
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539,136
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Nov 21 2007
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Interim Summaries
for progeny test bulls (spreadsheet .xls) |
*Based on first lactation records of cows in herds
with progeny test daughters in the latest 18 month period. |
Official Cow Evaluation Files (
ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/cows)
File Format 105 |
File
Name1 |
No. of Records |
File Size (bytes) |
Date |
Evaluations Included |
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105el.zip |
17,530
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2,081,274
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Aug 15 2008
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Evaluations for
Elite cows and high-ranking
grades based on Net Merit (NM$) percentile |
105hi5.zip |
94,499
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11,215,188
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Aug 15 2008
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Evaluations for the
top 5% of cows based on NM$ (registered and grade) |
Herd-Owner Name and Addresses (
ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/cows)
File Format 2 |
File
Name1 |
No. of Records |
File Size (bytes) |
Date |
Herds
Included |
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2nel.zip |
3,994
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133,490
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Aug 15 2008
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Herds with
Elite cows and high-ranking
grades based on Net Merit (NM$) percentile |
2nhi5.zip3 |
9,464
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297,843
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Aug 15 2008
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Herds for the top 5%
of cows based on NM$ (registered and grade) |
Goat yield evaluations
are updated in July. Type evaluations are updated in January.
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Goat
Evaluation Files ( ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/adga) |
File
Name1 |
File
Format |
File
Size (bytes) |
Date |
Description of File |
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38G.zip |
Format
38 |
1,272,058
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Jul 30 2008
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All buck yield
evaluations. |
105G.zip |
Format
105 |
18,666,346
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Jul 30 2008
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All doe yield
evaluations. |
topbuck |
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23,167
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Jul 27 2008
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Top 15% of bucks (for
yield) with recent daughters. |
topdoe |
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86,354
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Jul 27 2008
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Top 5% of does (for
yield) with recent kiddings. |
105Gavail.zip |
Format
105 |
924,649
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Jul 30 2008
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Doe evalautions for all
does with recent kiddings. |
buckname |
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139,788
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Jul 27 2008
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Yield evaluations for
bucks with recent daughters. |
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f940g.zip |
Format
940 |
983,189
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Nov 5 2007
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All buck type
evaluations. |
f941g.zip |
Format
941 |
1,777,798
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Nov 5 2007
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All doe type evaluations. |
1Compressed (zipped) files
have .zip extension. Uncompressed files have the extension .myy
where m is the month (Nov=B) and yy the year of the evaluation (e.g. B02
indicates November, 2002). |
2For bulls with both a
US-only and an Interbull evaluation available, the Interbull evaluation is
official if it includes data from an additional country or if Interbull
excludes US data but has higher reliability than the US-only
evaluation. |
3Password administered by
National Dairy Herd Improvement Association. |
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