The heritabilitles of final type and eight components of type were estimated by doubling the intra-sire regression of daughter's single type score on dam's single type score from 3,161 daughter-dam comparisons by 294 sires. The heritability estimates were: General appearance .33, dairy character .30, body capacity . 23, rump .36, feet and legs .19, mammary system .23, fore udder .28, rear udder .35, and final type .35.
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