FILE FORMAT FOR DATA DELIVERY TO THE INTERBULL CENTRE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EVALUATION

NATIONAL CALVING EASE AND STILLBIRTH PROOF FILE

• File format 018 (record length=196)

1. 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).

2. 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
3. Identification in the country of first registration, as known in the country sending this information.
4. 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.
5. All ID numbers: Registration numbers, right justified, leading blanks as zeros.
6. Name: Left justified, blanks not as zeros.
7. 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.

8. 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).

9. 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.

10. 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".

11. 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).
12. 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.

13. Number of calvings and number of calving daughters should be submitted in the fields for effective daughter contribution for direct and maternal effects, respectively.

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).

Describe public/file018 here.