Table 2 Estimates of phenotypic variance and ratios with respect to phenotypic variance for additive genetic (h²), herd within region-year-season (hrys²), service sire by year of insemination (ss²), artificial insemination technician (tech²), and residual (e²) variances (standard errors in parentheses)

2,740,757

26.02 (1.89)

28.17 (0.90)

45.81 (1.79)

4889.50

22.57 (1.77)

31.98 (0.90)

45.45 (1.68)

2663.70

21.69 (1.67)

33.35 (0.90)

44.96 (1.60)

2410.50

4.25 (0.67)

60.24 (0.56)

35.51 (0.71)

0.87

1.96 (0.42)

6.81 (0.54)

91.23 (0.67)

0.21

1.31 (0.25)

2.78 (0.47)

1.44 (0.03)

0.56 (0.16)

93.91 (0.58)

1118.60

2.12 (0.47)

6.20 (0.55)

91.68 (0.70)

594.27

6.59 (1.13)

39.90 (1.01)

53.51 (1.32)

1.65

4.21 (0.85)

2.78 (0.46)

93.01 (1.08)

0.25

3.07 (0.58)

2.33 (0.59)

0.64 (0.33)

0.03 (0.12)

93.93 (0.81)

1920.90

3.19 (0.93)

3.18 (0.69)

93.63 (1.13)