Deer farmers to gain from genetic database update

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Deer farmers to gain from genetic database update

Reading Time: 2 minutes Deer Industry New Zealand has launched Deer Select 2, a major update to the national deer genetics records database.  This is the first significant update since 2005. Deer Select 2 is made up of both new and updated features, including separate evaluations for red deer and wapiti, genetic groups in growth and meat traits, new reproduction breeding values (BV) and updated velvet heritabilities based on 40,000 New Zealand v…