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Thus: compensatory mating involves finding the best mate for individual females to compensate her shortcomings. Compensatory mating may have an effect on individual mating results, but has not effect at population level. |
An example of a mating system for dairy cattle aAa®with compensatory elementswas created in 1950 by U.S. Holstein breeder and classifier Bill Weeks and is outlined in chapter 10.2.1. In 10.2.2 CRV’s SAP mating system for dairy cows outlined that is developed to compensate in planned matings the weak characteristics of a cow with strong characteristics of a bull.