LIST OF COMMON ABBREVIATIONS TO USE IN INTERBULL FORMS
AI Artificial Insemination
AM Animal Model
AYS Ayrshire type
B&W Black and White
BLUP Best Linear Unbiased Prediction
BSW Brown Swiss type
BW Breeding Worth
c Environmental correlation between records within sub-classes
CE Calving Ease
CG Contemporary group, comparison group
DIM Days In Milk
DO Days Open
DYD Daughter Yield Deviation
EBV Estimated Breeding Value
EPD Expected Progeny Difference
ET Embryo Transfer
ETA Estimated Transmitting Ability
F Fixed effect
FCM Fat Corrected Milk
FR Fixed Regression
GUE Guernsey type
h2 Heritability of a trait
HOL Holstein-Friesian (Black-and-white) type
HYS Herd-Year-Season
JER Jersey type
Kg Kilogram
l Liter
lb pounds
ME Mature Equivalent, records are adjusted to mature cow yield basis
MGS Maternal Grand Sire
ML Multiple lactations
MSH Milking Shorthorn type
MT Multiple Traits
NS Natural Service
PD Predicted Difference
PE Permanent Environment
PIN Pinzgauer type
PL Productive Life
PTA Predicted Transmitting Ability
R Random effect
RP Repeatability (model)
R&W Red and White
RBV Relative Breeding Value
RED Non-Ayrshire Red and Red-and-White type
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
SCC Somatic Cell Count
SCS Somatic Cell Score
SD Standard Deviation
SIM Simmental type
SM Sire Model
SNF Solids-Not-Fat
SS Single Step
ST Single Trait
t Repeatability of trait
TD Test Day
TDM Test Day Model
TMI Total Merit Index
TPr True Protein, 0.95*(crude protein)