TABLE 1.
Distribution of the number of records (N) and the percentage of stillbirth (% SB) by parity-sex combination of calves in five non-Holstein dairy breeds.
| First parity | Second parity | Third-and-later parities | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |||||||
| N | %SB | N | %SB | N | %SB | N | %SB | N | %SB | N | %SB | |
| Ayrshire | 1,450 | 8.62 | 1,643 | 8.64 | 1,328 | 4.21 | 1,462 | 5.60 | 2,234 | 6.80 | 2,289 | 6.64 |
| Guernsey | 1,752 | 8.84 | 1,969 | 9.64 | 1,751 | 5.19 | 1,746 | 6.24 | 2,722 | 4.99 | 2,501 | 6.11 |
| Milking shorthorn | 379 | 10.29 | 398 | 6.53 | 499 | 4.40 | 523 | 4.58 | 649 | 5.08 | 574 | 5.22 |
| Brown swiss | 10,003 | 6.48 | 13,116 | 5.31 | 11,235 | 4.11 | 10,957 | 3.90 | 17,831 | 4.62 | 17,252 | 4.77 |
| Jersey | 44,150 | 7.57 | 133,816 | 5.36 | 46,351 | 3.17 | 82,175 | 2.85 | 72,784 | 3.58 | 106,328 | 3.32 |