FILE FORMAT FOR DATA DELIVERY TO THE INTERBULL CENTRE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EVALUATION
NATIONAL DIRECT LONGEVITY AND COMBINED LONGEVITY PROOF FILE
File format 017 (record length=134)
Starting Position |
Field Description |
Format |
Example |
1 |
Record type1 |
character 3 |
017 |
4 |
Breed2 of evaluation12 |
character 3 |
|
Bull international identification3 |
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7 |
Breed2 of bull |
character 3 |
|
10 |
Country of first registration of bull 4 |
character 3 |
|
13 |
Sex |
character 1 |
M |
14 |
ID number of bull 5 |
character 12 |
000000A12345 |
26 |
Name of bull 6 |
character 30 |
|
56 |
Birth date of bull (YYYYMMDD) |
integer 8 |
19850117 |
National evaluation information |
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64 |
Date of national evaluation (YYYYMMDD) |
integer 8 |
19960415 |
72 |
Type of proof 8 |
integer 2 |
|
74 |
Status of bull10 |
integer 2 |
|
Direct Longevity |
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|
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76 |
Genetic merit (national proof) definition7 |
character 2 |
B+/ B-/T+/ T- |
78 |
Official publication of proof 9 |
character 1 |
Y/P/N |
79 |
Number of daughters |
integer 6 |
|
85 |
Number of herds |
integer 5 |
|
90 |
Effective Daughter Contribution13 |
integer 6 |
|
96 |
Repeatability/Reliability (%) |
integer 2 |
|
98 |
National proof11 (x1000) |
integer 6 |
|
Combined Longevity |
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|
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104 |
Genetic merit (national proof) definition7 |
character 2 |
B+/ B-/T+/ T- |
106 |
Official publication of proof 9 |
character 1 |
Y/P/N |
107 |
Number of daughters |
integer 6 |
|
113 |
Number of herds |
integer 5 |
|
118 |
Effective Daughter Contribution13 |
integer 6 |
|
124 |
Repeatability/Reliability (%) |
integer 2 |
|
126 |
National proof11 (x1000) |
integer 6 |
|
132 |
Country sending this information4 |
character 3 |
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010=Bull National Production Proof File; 015=Bull National Conformation Proof File; 115=Bull National Brown Swiss Conformation Proof File; 016=Bull National Milk Somatic Cell and Clinical Mastitis Proof File;017=Bull National Direct Longevity and Combined Longevity Proof File; 018=Bull National Calving Ease and Stillbirth Proof File; 019=Bull National Female Fertility Proof File;020= Bull National Workability Proof File; 040=File for Genetic Trend Validation (production); 045=File for Genetic Trend Validation (conformation); 046=File for Genetic Trend Validation (milk somatic cell and clinical mastitis); 047=File for Genetic Trend Validation (direct longevity and combined longevity); 048=File for Genetic Trend Validation (calving ease and stillbirth). 049=File for Genetic Trend Validation (female fertility). 050= File for Genetic Trend Validation (Workability).
- HOL=Holstein-Friesian (Black-and-White) type; BSW=Brown Swiss type; GUE=Guernsey type; JER=Jersey type; SIM=Simmental type; MSH=Milking Shorthorn type; PIN=Pinzgauer type; AYS=Ayrshire type; RED=Non-Ayrshire Red and Red-and-White types.
- For additional breed codes please refer to the list available in the Interbull website
- Identification in the country of first registration, as known in the country sending this information.
- Country codes; Interbull codes in English: ARG=Argentina; AUS=Australia; AUT=Austria; BEL=Belgium; CAN=Canada; HRV=Croatia; CZE=Czech Republic; DNK=Denmark; EST=Estonia; FIN=Finland; FRA=France; GBR=United Kingdom; DEU=Germany; GRC=Greece; HUN=Hungary; IND=India; IRL=Ireland; ISR=Israel; ITA=Italy; JPN=Japan; LVA=Latvia; LTU=Lithuania; LUX=Luxembourg; MEX=Mexico; NLD=Netherlands; NZL=New Zealand; NOR=Norway; POL=Poland; PRT=Portugal; ROU=Romania; SVK=Slovak Republic; SVN=Slovenia; KOR=South Korea; ZAF=South African Republic; ESP=Spain; SWE=Sweden; CHE=Switzerland; TUN=Tunisia; USA=United States of America; ZWE=Zimbabwe
- For additional country codes please use the ISO 3166 standard.
- All ID numbers: Registration numbers, right justified, leading blanks as zeros.
- Name: Left justified, blanks not as zeros.
- High breeding value (B+) / transmitting ability (T+, half BV), means high values are desirable (i.e. fewer somatic cells reps. better resistance to mastitis); low breeding value (B-) / transmitting ability (T-, half BV), means low values are desirable.
Type of proof: 00 unknown; 11 based on first crop sampling daughters; 12 based on first and second crop daughters; 21 based on imported semen of proven bull (second crop daughters only).
- Y if bull proof meets national standards for official publication in the country sending this information; P if bull is part of a simultaneous progeny-testing programme, but the proof does not yet meet national standards for official publication; N otherwise.
Status of bull: 00 unknown; 10 bull randomly sampled through an official AI scheme; 20 other bull. Records with "20" in this field will be excluded from the international evaluation, unless type of proof is "21".
- National proof expressed in their official (publishable) form; multiplied by 1000 to include 3 decimal points; for missing national proof fill in 9s (eg. 999999).
- Breed of evaluation will determine the international evaluation of the breed that will include this record; usually it is the same as the breed of bull.
- Effective daughter contributions calculated according to the Interbull document "New weighting factors for the international genetic evaluation", 7 July, 2000, rounded to nearest integer.
General:
All numeric fields should be right justified
All alpha fields should be in upper case.
If numbers of daughters, herds, and effective daughters and repeatability/reliability are the same for protein as for milk/fat, information must be repeated (do not leave it blank).