Table 3. Genetic parameter estimates of the age of first calving with data sets classified by age at calving (24 age month)

Data set Parameters
Heritability Additive variance Phenotype variance
≤ 24 0.716 ± 0.038 1,517.3 ± 100.7 2,118.6 ± 41.3
> 24 0.087 ± 0.016 337.8 ± 63.5 3,893.7 ± 45.1
Entire set 0.097 ± 0.015 674.2 ± 109.8 6,980.1 ± 66.9