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

• Publicly available queries for individual cows, bulls, and goats
• Queries available to industry cooperators

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:

• Complete sire list sorted by breed and ID
• ERCR evaluations, spreadsheet format available
• Elite Cow List (registered & grade), sorted by breed and herd code
• Holstein high daughters list (Holstein bulls with the most evaluated daughters)
• Top sires with official evaluations sorted by Net Merit $, Cheese Merit $, Fluid Merit $; by breed (These lists include bulls which may not have semen available in the United States. Lists for available bulls are available Thursday following release day).
• Average evaluations by country of most daughters
• Source of Top 100 Bulls on each country's scale

Available at 1pm Eastern time on the Thursday following release day:

• Bull lists
  • Top sires and available sires lists sorted by Net Merit $, Cheese Merit $, Fluid Merit $; by breed
  • Active AI and Foreign Available Lists
  • Status of AI bulls (Explanation of status codes)

• Genetic evaluation summary (average bull PTA's and standard deviations)

• 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.

• Goat evaluation files
• Genetic trend by breed for goats
• Inbreeding information for goats
• Frequency of goat type appraisals

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)