Optimization of Sex Ratio in a Selection Plan for Palas Prolificacy Line

Abstract

The aim of the paper work is to optimize the sex ratio in a selection plan, according to model developed by King (1961), which will be proposed to be applied for prolificacy improvement in Prolific Line Palas. The method used in this paper work is modeling, which exist in the most animal breeding scientifically papers. After the simulations, we observed that the most convenient variant was that which prefigure use of 13 rams on reproduction activity. This variant offer a genetic gain per generation by 0.47497 additive standard deviations.

Keywords

• optimization
• selection plan
• sheep