

WMS or IMAGE?
When deciding which inbreeding management tool, WMS or IMAGE, is the best fit for your herd, the following points are important factors for consideration:
Producers may opt for WMS when:
- You follow individual matings with individual breeding recommendations
- You have accurate parentage data for each cow in your herd
- You identify the parentage of all offspring
Benefits of mating with WMS include:
- Provides a genetic consultation for sire selection
- Provides the value of individual matings for each animal
- Genomic testing files can be utilized with WMS to design a mating program based on genomic data
- Protects against inbreeding, recessives and haplotypes
- Saves time in daily herd management, keeping your breeding program moving forward
- Helps you plan and monitor semen inventory and track genetic progress
- Encourages parentage verification
- WMS was designed for herds who wish to make genetic progress one specialized mating at a time.
Producers should choose IMAGE when:
- You prefer utilizing population genetics rather than individual animal matings
- Individual animal pedigree identification of each animal is not part of your past/current management system
- Your current management system and/or breeding program make it difficult to implement individual animal mating recommendations
- Controlling inbreeding through population genetics is important to you
Benefits of Mating with IMAGE:
- Flexible herd data requirements: can use previous sire usage or any available pedigree information
- Effective tool to manage and reduce inbreeding
- Works well in herds utilizing a synchronization protocol
- Specifically designed to allow herds to mass breed in a limited time frame