Fleckvieh

Again, they found the variant was at an allele frequency of 8.4% in French Holsteins and 4.4% in Swiss Holsteins.

Well, it was really absent in some of the other breeds that they had looked at, which was Simmental, Swiss Fleckvieh.

So they also compared it across the genomes from worldwide global scale populations, and basically it helped them confirm that this HYAL mutation was not localized to just Europe, that it was an international breed issue, and certainly it will be looked at from around the globe now to see if it's in other populations.

So the researchers tracked six-year survival data across about 300,000 Holstein cattles and basically determined that survival really diverges at three years of age.

I'm coming off the back of beef welfare scheme closing for 2026 and I observed a high volume of my dairy clients that showed as having an eligible reference number for the beef welfare scheme 2026.

Am I assuming incorrectly that the 90,000 figure is coming from data made available by ICBF? And I'm wondering, is there an influence of Rotbunt, Norwegian Red or Fleckvieh, etc.

that are being used on dairy herds, but incorrectly impacting the figures as these are not suckler cows, but due to breed classifications are appearing as beef breeds? Question is purely based in my recent observations and I'm hoping you can clarify this.

Thanks and keep up the good work.