LIST OF COMMON ABBREVIATIONS TO USE IN INTERBULL FORMS
AFC Age at First Calving
AI Artificial Insemination
AM Animal Model
APY Algorithm for Proven and Young bulls
AR Auto Regressive
AWW Adjusted Weaning Weight
AYS Ayrshire type
B&W Black and White
BLUP Best Linear Unbiased Prediction
BSW Brown Swiss type
BW Breeding Worth
BW Birth Weight
c Environmental correlation between records within sub-classes
CE Calving Ease
CFI Calving to First Insemination
CG Contemporary group, comparison group
CI Calving Interval
CR Conception Rate
CTFS Calving to First Service
DAM Maternal Genetic effect
DCE Direct Calving Ease
DE Daughter Equivalent
DGV Direct Genetic Value
DHI Dairy Herd Information
DIM Days In Milk
DO Days Open
DPGM De-regressed Predicted Genetic Merit
DRP De-Regressed Proof
DSB Direct Stillbirth
DYD Daughter Yield Deviation
EBV Estimated Breeding Value
EDC Effective Daughter Contribution
EPD Expected Progeny Difference
ET Embryo Transfer
ETA Estimated Transmitting Ability
F Fixed effect
FCM Fat Corrected Milk
FR Fixed Regression
FW Finish Weight
GBLUP Genomic Best Linear Unbiased Prediction
GEBV Genomic Estimated Breeding Value
GES Gestation Length
GUE Guernsey type
h2 Heritability of a trait
HF Holstein Friesian
HOL Holstein-Friesian (Black-and-white) type
HYS Herd-Year-Season
IBS Identical by State
ICAR International Committee for Animal Recording
IFL Interval from First to Last Insemination
JER Jersey type
Kg Kilogram
l Liter
LM Late Mastitis
Log Logarithm
Log e Natural Logarithm
LPL Length of Productive Life
lb pounds
IFL Interval between First and Last Insemiantion
MACE Multiple Across Country Evaluation
MAS Mastitis
MB Multi Breeds
MCE Maternal Calving Ease
ME Mature Equivalent, records are adjusted to mature cow yield basis
MGS Maternal Grand Sire
ml Mililiter
ML Multiple Lactations
MPE Maternal Permanent Environmental effect
MS Mendelian Sampling
MSB Maternal Stillbirth
MSH Milking Shorthorn type
MSP Milking Speed
MT Multiple Traits
NNR Non-Return Rate
NS Natural Service
PA Parent Average
PD Predicted Difference
PEV Permanent Environment
PIN Pinzgauer type
PL Productive Life
PTA Predicted/Progeny Transmitting Ability
PWG Post Weaning Growth
QTL Quantitative Trait Loci
R Random effect
REP Repeatability (model)
R&W Red and White
RBV Relative Breeding Value
RED Non-Ayrshire Red and Red-and-White type
RED Reduced Rank model
REL Reliability/Repeatability of a sire proof, given either in the scale between 0 and 1 or as percentage
REML Restricted Maximum Likelihood
rg Genetic correlation
rp Phenotypic correlation
RR Random regression
RTA Relative Transmitting Ability
SA Survival Analysis
SCC Somatic Cell Count
SCS Somatic Cell Score
SD Standard Deviation
SH Structrual Heteroskedastic
SL Single Lactation
SIM Simmental type
SM Sire Model
S-MGS Sire Grand Sire model
SNF Solids-Not-Fat
SS Single Step genomic evaluation
ST Single Trait
SW Effective number of daughters/records
t Repeatability of trait
TEM Temperament
TD Test Day
TDM Test Day Model
ThrM Threshold model
TMI Total Merit Index
TPr True Protein, 0.95*(crude protein)
TS Two-Step genomic evaluation
UHI Udder Health Index
YW Yearling Weight