Table 2.

A noncomprehensive summary of heritability estimates for production, reproduction, and adaptation traits in Boer goats

Breeding objective	Trait	Heritability	Reference
Growth	Weaning weight	0.23	Menezes et al. (2016)
	Weaning weight	0.29	Garcia-Muniz et al. (2018)
	Weaning weight	0.32	Ball et al. (2001)
	Body weight	0.37-0.451	Ball et al. (2001)
Reproduction	Litter size at birth	0.12	Zhang et al. (2009)
	Litter weight at birth	0.01	Menezes et al. (2016)
	Litter size at weaning	0.10	Zhang et al. (2009)
	Litter weight at weaning	0.10	Menezes et al. (2016)
Nematode resistance	Packed cell volume	0.06	Thomas (2015)
	Faecal egg count	0.13	Thomas (2015)
	Famacha score©	0.11	Thomas (2015)

¹ Estimates at different ages within one study at 8 and 12 months.