Selection of parents for the multiplier
Number of parents Sires: Dams 50:200 or 5:25
Economic weights (wCAND/wSIB) to multiplier 50/50 as in nucleus
Selection Optimum contribution on TMI
Selection of parents for the grow-out
Number of male selection candidates 2000 from the nucleus
Number of female selection candidates 6000 from the multiplier
Number of parents Sires:Dams 10:600 or 5:120
Recordings in the multiplier
- CAND 6000 female candidates
Economic weights (vCAND_T/vSIB_T)
- Sires 20/80, 50/50, 80/20
- Dams 100/0
Selection
- Sires random and truncation selection on TMI
- Dams random and truncation phenotype selection on CAND
Number of generations 8
Number of replicated simulations 50