Across-breed benchmarks

The percentiles are based on animals born between 2021 and 2023, whose EBVs have an accuracy that reaches the trait publication threshold (accuracy publication thresholds are listed alongside our trait definitions). They will be moved up a year on an annual basis each April.

For the publication of carcase trait EBVs the accuracy threshold for these is 30%, anything less will not be published.

For the publication of maternal trait EBVs the accuracy threshold for these is 25%, anything less will not be published.

Continental benchmarks

Trait	Bottom 1%	Bottom 5%	Bottom 10%	Bottom 25%	Average	Top 25%	Top 10%	Top 5%	Top 1%
Days to slaughter	30.34	21.41	16.64	8.68	-0.18	-9.04	-17.01	-21.77	-30.71
Carcase weight	-13.41	-7.16	-3.84	1.73	7.92	14.11	19.67	23.00	29.25
Carcase conformation	-2.76	-1.66	-1.07	-0.08	1.01	2.11	3.09	3.68	4.79
Carcase fat class	-6.51	-5.36	-4.74	-3.71	-2.57	-1.43	-0.40	0.22	1.37
Average daily carcase gain	-0.03	-0.02	-0.01	0.00	0.01	0.02	0.04	0.04	0.06
Age at first calving	37.81	26.89	21.08	11.35	0.54	-10.28	-20.00	-25.82	-36.73
Productive lifespan	-0.55	-0.39	-0.30	-0.16	0.01	0.17	0.31	0.40	0.56
Calf survival	-1.79	-0.33	0.45	1.75	3.19	4.64	5.93	6.71	8.17

Native benchmarks

Trait	Bottom 1%	Bottom 5%	Bottom 10%	Bottom 25%	Average	Top 25%	Top 10%	Top 5%	Top 1%
Days to slaughter	24.87	14.87	9.54	0.62	-9.30	-19.21	-28.13	-33.46	-43.47
Carcase weight	-26.05	-20.06	-16.86	-11.51	-5.57	0.38	5.73	8.92	14.92
Carcase conformation	-4.49	-3.70	-3.27	-2.56	-1.77	-0.98	-0.26	0.16	0.96
Carcase fat class	-2.04	-0.93	-0.34	0.65	1.74	2.84	3.83	4.42	5.53
Average daily carcase gain	-0.05	-0.04	-0.03	-0.02	0.00	0.01	0.02	0.03	-0.05
Age at first calving	46.61	30.35	21.68	7.18	-8.93	-25.05	-39.55	-48.21	-64.47
Productive lifespan	-0.41	-0.24	-0.14	0.02	0.20	0.38	0.54	0.63	0.81
Calf survival	-1.26	0.12	0.85	2.08	3.45	4.82	6.05	6.78	8.16