Table 4.

The genetic correlation between electrical conductivity and milk production-related traits of Chinese Holstein dairy cows

	EC_1	EC_2	EC_3	EC_ave	SCS	MY	MS	AQ
EC_1	1.000	0.014	0.011	0.021	0.050	0.050	0.067	0.112
EC_2	0.994	1.000	0.009	0.002	0.042	0.044	0.060	0.104
EC_3	0.992	0.998	1.000	0.004	0.055	0.045	0.062	0.114
EC_ave	0.998	0.999	0.997	1.000	0.048	0.041	0.056	0.109
SCS	0.098	0.113	0.122	0.135	1.000	0.089	0.130	0.166
MY	−0.113	−0.113	−0.060	−0.090	−0.009	1.000	0.029	0.074
MS	−0.057	−0.084	−0.009	−0.035	0.162	0.457	1.000	0.098
AQ	−0.286	−0.200	−0.118	−0.111	0.475	0.422	0.027	1.000

EC_1 the EC at the first milking session in a day, EC_2 the EC at the second milking session in a day, EC_3 the EC at the third milking session in a day, EC_ave the daily average EC, SCS somatic cell score of the milk, MY the daily milk yield, MS the average milk speed in a day, AQ the activity quantity of each cow in a day

The bold fonts are genetic correlation values, and the non-bold fonts are the corresponding standard errors