When the WRITEcurve parameter is set to 1 data describing the lactation curve for each cow and trait are written to a file whose name is formed by appending the calculation method (ST or MT) and date (YYYYMMDD) to CURVEfile (e.g. cowcurve.ST.20080807). Each line in the output file contains a cow ID, lactation number, trait number, DIM, and TD yield, as well as blocks for mature equivalent and actual yields; each block includes the BP of daily yield and the standard curve value corresponding to that day of lactation (Table 4.4). Up to 4
maxlen lines will be written to the file for each cow processed. The cow's individual lactation curve is obtained by summing the daily BP and standard curve columns.
[jcole@aipl366 bestpred\]$ cat cowcurve.ST.20080807 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 1 -999.000 8.061 40.162 8.053 40.122 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 2 -999.000 8.241 46.466 8.233 46.420 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 3 -999.000 8.357 50.528 8.349 50.478 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 4 -999.000 8.447 53.568 8.438 53.515 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 5 -999.000 8.522 56.006 8.513 55.951 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 6 -999.000 8.588 58.043 8.579 57.986 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 7 -999.000 8.647 59.790 8.639 59.731 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 8 -999.000 8.702 61.316 8.694 61.256 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 9 -999.000 8.753 62.668 8.745 62.606 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 1 10 -999.000 8.802 63.879 8.793 63.816
Similarly, when the WRITEdata parameter is set to 1 data describing the lactation yields for each cow and trait are written to a file whose name is formed by appending the calculation method (ST or MT) and date (YYYYMMDD) to DATAfile (e.g. cowdata.ST.20080807). Each line in the output file contains a cow ID, lactation number, trait name, number of tests, blocks for mature equivalent and actual yields, DCR, method of calculation (ST or MT), persistency of yield on a 305-d basis, and reliability of persistency (Table 4.5). Each yield block includes five columns: 305-d yield, 365-d yield, laclen-d yield, lactation-to-date yield, and contemporary average yield. Note that the records for SCS are multiplied by 100.
An example cow data file is presented below. The data were edited to fit on the page and the resulting column boundaries do not match Table 4.5; the table is correct.[jcole@aipl366 bestpred]$ cat cowdata.ST.20080807 HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 Milk 9 21753. 24744. 21753. 18824. 20000. 21731. 24720. 21731. 18805. 19980. 102. MT -0.06 85. HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 Fat 9 778. 893. 778. 669. 700. 774. 889. 774. 666. 697. 102. MT 0.04 84. HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 Prot 9 692. 796. 692. 595. 600. 687. 790. 687. 590. 595. 102. MT -0.31 84. HOUSA.EX.COW. 5 SCS 9 221. 230. 221. 215. 308. 268. 278. 268. 260. 373. 101. ST -0.58 72.
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