Evaluation files
Files are available for download at 1 pm on the Friday before release but are password protected to allow for download prior to official release
The password for unencrypting the files is available to the public at 7 am on the day of release. See the evaluation schedule for the complete listing of evaluation availability times. A complete description of evaluation distribution is also available.
| Goat yield evaluations are updated in July; type evaluations are updated in January | ||||
| Goat evaluation files (ftp://ftp.uscdcb.com/pub/adga) |
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| File name1 | File format | File size (bytes) |
Date | File description |
| f941.zip | Format 941 | 3,424,692 | Jan 27 2022 | 941 doe |
| f940.zip | Format 940s | 740,736 | Jan 27 2022 | 940 buck |
| topbuck | 31,286 | Dec 5 2023 | Top 15% of bucks (for yield) with recent daughters | |
| topdoe | 132,272 | Dec 5 2023 | Top 5% of does (for yield) with recent kiddings | |
| 105Gavail.zip | Format 105 | 1,592,928 | Dec 6 2022 | Doe evaluations for all does with recent kiddings |
| buckname | 191,672 | Dec 5 2023 | Yield evaluations for bucks with recent daughters | |
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1Compressed (zipped) files have .zip extension. Uncompressed files have the extension .myy where m is the month (Nov=B) and yy the year of the evaluation (e.g., B02 indicates November, 2002). |
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2For bulls with both a U.S.-only and an Interbull evaluation available, the Interbull evaluation is official if it includes data from an additional country or if Interbull excludes U.S. data but has higher reliability than the U.S.-only evaluation. |
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3Password administered by National Dairy Herd Improvement Association. |