Table 2.

Posteriori mean, standard deviation, and 95% high posterior density (HPD) for the estimates of genetic parameters for each assessed trait

	Mean	Standard deviation	HPD 95%
Temperament score (TS)
σ²a	0.08	0.03	0.02 to 0.15
σ²pe	0.04	0.03	0.00 to 0.11
σ²e	0.85	0.04	0.77 to 0.93
h²	0.08	0.03	0.02 to 0.15
r	0.12	0.04	0.05 to 0.19
Flight speed (FS)
σ²a	0.11	0.04	0.04 to 0.19
σ²pe	0.14	0.04	0.06 to 0.23
σ²e	0.63	0.03	0.57 to 0.69
h²	0.12	0.04	0.04 to 0.21
r	0.24	0.03	0.18 to 0.31
Body condition score (BCS)
σ²a	0.03	0.02	0.01 to 0.08
σ²pe	0.21	0.03	0.16 to 0.27
σ²e	0.27	0.02	0.24 to 0.31
h²	0.06	0.04	0.01 to 0.15
r	0.48	0.03	0.41 to 0.15
Live weight (LW)
σ²a	229.68	88.12	84.58 to 481.44
σ²pe	934.77	88.49	761.28 to 1,107.13
σ²e	606.41	30.02	550.75 to 667.11
h²	0.13	0.05	0.05 to 0.23
r	0.66	0.02	0.62 to 0.69
Hip height (HH)
σ²a	0.0009	0.0002	0.000 to 0.001
σ²pe	0.0005	0.0001	0.000 to 0.001
σ²e	0.0004	0.0003	0.0004 to 0.0005
h²	0.48	0.07	0.34 to 0.62
r	0.77	0.02	0.73 to 0.81

σ²_a, direct additive genetic variance; σ²_pe, permanent environmental variance; σ²_e, residual variance; h², heritability; r, repeatability.