View source for Conformation Recording: Conformation Recording of dual purpose Cattle

This document contains a list of approved standard traits, which is a list of traits which should be scored by all organisations in the same way to improve further harmonisation on international level, also on Interbull level. The data collected within these recommended standards qualifies for MACE evaluation by Interbull.

Further the document contains a list of 5 traits which are commonly used by organisations in the dairy and dual-purpose breeds world-wide. This list of common standard traits is added to improve harmonisation of these traits too.

Besides giving trait definitions on standard traits, recommendations are given on improvement and transparency of data collection and monitoring classifiers.

The standard trait definition for Dual Purpose Cattle can be found in [https://www.icar.org/Guidelines/05-Conformation-recording-Appendix-2.pdf Appendix 2: The standard trait definition for Dual Purpose Cattle.]