>>> Works fine for dairy cattle - not for Icelandic horses.
>> Could we say that it works fine for predicting the amount of fat in the >> milk of dairy cow (or the amount of milk produced by dairy cows), and not >> the whole cow itself? When I went on the snipe hunt to find out about BLUP, that's pretty much what I found out. It CAN be effective when it's used with huge quantities of data (as in millions of data points) when only ONE trait is to be monitored and improved. I remember particularly the examples of butterfat in cow's milk and protein content in soy beans. Past that, it falls apart. What makes me like a horse - or want to breed the horse - is MUCH more complicated than a soy bean. Karen Thomas, NC
