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2023
Defining valid breeding goals for animal breeds
Defining valid breeding goals for animal breeds
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Background: The objective of any valid breeding program is to increase the suitability of a breed for its future purposes. The approach most often followed in animal breeding for optimizing breeding goals assumes that the sole desire of the owners is profit maximization. As this assumption is often violated, a generalized approach is needed that does not rely on this assumption.
Results: The generalized approach is based on the niche concept. The niche of a breed is a set of environments in which a small population of the breed would have a positive population growth rate. Its growth rate depends on demand from prospective consumers and supply from producers. The approach involves defining the niche that is envisaged for the breed and identifying the trait optima that maximize the breed’s adaptation to its envisaged niche within the set of permissible breeding goals. The set of permissible breeding goals is the set of all potential breeding goals that are compatible with animal welfare and could be reached within the planning horizon of the breeding program. In general, the breed’s adaptation depends on the satisfaction of the producers with the animals and on the satisfaction of the consumers with the products produced by the animals. When consumers buy live animals, then the breed needs to adapt to both the environments provided by the producers, and the environments provided by the consumers. The profit function is replaced by a more general adaptedness function that measures the breed’s adaptation to its envisaged niche.
Conclusions: The proposed approach coincides with the traditional approach if the producers have the sole desire to maximize their income, and if consumer preferences are well reflected by the product prices. If these assumptions are not met, then the traditional approach to breeding goal optimization is unlikely to result in a valid breeding goal. Using the example of companion breeds, this paper shows that the proposed approach has the potential to fill the gap.
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Genetics selection evolution, 55 (2023), 80.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-023-00855-6.
ISSN: 1297-9686
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Wellmann, R., Gengler, N., Bennewitz, J., & Tetens, J. (2023). Defining valid breeding goals for animal breeds. Genetics selection evolution, 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-023-00855-6
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@article{Wellmann2023,
doi = {10.1186/s12711-023-00855-6},
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16978},
author = {Wellmann, Robin and Gengler, Nicolas and Bennewitz, Jörn et al.},
title = {Defining valid breeding goals for animal breeds},
journal = {Genetics selection evolution},
year = {2023},
volume = {55},
}