Studies were conducted on controlled populations of dairy cattle of
Ayrshire, Kholmogory, Yaroslavl, black-and-white breeds of breeding farms in the
Vologda region. It has been revealed that the sires of domestic selection have a greater
degree of influence on the productive indices of their daughters than foreign ones do.
The calculation of the breeding value of bulls in terms of their daughters’ productivity
has been carried out, and on the basis of a comparative analysis the best producers