ReDiverse: Biodiversity within and between European Red dairy breeds (ERA-NET)

Coordinated by prof. Dirk Hinrichs and prof. Georg Thaller

Major goals:

• By creating improved breeding and conservation tools, ReDiverse can increase the efficiency of genomic selection and genomic conservation strategies
• By characterising milk protein variants found in European Red dairy breeds, ReDiverse can identify variants beneficial effects
• By social and economic analysis, ReDiverse can demonstrate and enhance the economic value of European Red dairy breeds and make them more competitive
• ReDiverse can formulate a breeding plan, which simultaneously assures economic viability of European Red dairy breeds and maintain genetic variation

Factsheet

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Results:
Preliminary results presented on the EAAP conference regarding Influence of pedigree on effective population size in European Red Dairy Cattle.

Economic values (in € per change in trait unit and cow-year), standard deviations and relative weights for the trait complex for the breeding goal traits for Polish dairy breeds: Polish Holstein (PH), Polish Red (PR).

Observed changes in revenues and costs due to a change of 1% increase in cow fertility expressed in € at herd level for Polish Red (PR) and Polish Holstein (PH).