“…Heritability estimates for BFT, EMA, CWT and MS were 0.34, 0.35, 0.39 and 0.38, respectively, when fitting the farm as independent effects. These estimates are in line with other studies that used similar models with heritability estimates that ranged from 0.33 to 0.42 (Chung et al, 2020;Cuyabano et al, 2021). Conversely, using the THI to model the farm effects as correlated resulted in a drop in heritability estimates to 0.31, 0.11, 0.29 and 0.18 for BFT, EMA, CWT and MS, respectively.…”