Session 04. Redesigning selection objectives to account for long-term challenges
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Date: 26 August 2013; 08:30 – 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Knap
Theatre Session 04
08.30 Breeding goals in the era of increasingly scarce and competing resources
Invited E. Wall, R. Rees and D. Moran
09.00 Improvement of a method to predict individual enteric methane emission of cows from milk MIR spectra
A. Vanlierde, F. Dehareng, E. Froidmont, N. Gengler, H. Soyeurt, P.B. Kandel, S. McParland, E. Lewis, M. Deighton and P. Dardenne
09.15 Future needs and challenges in dairy cattle breeding – based on a survey with Austrian farmers
F. Steininger, B. Fuerst-Waltl, C. Pfeiffer, C. Fuerst, H. Schwarzenbacher and C. Egger-Danner
09.30 Breeding pigs for heat tolerance: challenges to face
J.-L. Gourdine, D. Renaudeau, J. Riquet, J.-P. Bidanel and H. Gilbert
09.45 Defining a breeding goal for sustainable farming of Atlantic salmon
H.M. Nielsen, I. Olesen, B. Gjerde, K.M. Grimsrud and S. Navrud
10.45 Re-designing selection objectives to improve animal welfare
Invited S.P. Turner, T.B. Rodenburg, S. Desire, E. Wall, L. Canario, R.B. D’Eath, C.M. Dwyer and R. Roehe
11.15 Consequences of selection for indirect genetic effects on growth for production traits in pigs
I. Camerlink, N. Duijvesteijn, J.E. Bolhuis, J.A.M. Van Arendonk and P. Bijma
11.30 Updating the breeding goals based on a bio-economic model in a French Holstein system
D. Pinard and D. Regaldo
12.00 The cost of batch variability as a component of economic values for robustness traits
P. Amer and S. Hermesch
Poster Session 04
A modeling tool to define breeding goals in cattle, sheep and goats
J. Guerrier, C. Experton, S. Patin and F. Phocas