Nurse capacity, fertility, and litter size in crossbred sows and genetic correlation to purebred sow information.

doi:10.2527/jas.2015-0199

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Nurse capacity, fertility, and litter size in crossbred sows and genetic correlation to purebred sow information.

Journal of animal science - 1 May 2016

Nielsen B, Christensen O F, Velander I

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In pigs litter size has increased during the last decades and number of weaned piglets is an important issue. The aim of this study was to develop a new trait of nurse capacity (NC) of crossbred sows viewed as crossbred performances in the two purebred parent lines, and estimate the genetic correlation to fertility and litter size five days after birth. An experiment recording phenotypes of crossbred sows was...

Topics

Animals
Breeding
Female
Fertility
Hybridization, Genetic
Lactation
Litter Size
Male
Models, Genetic
Parturition
Phenotype
Swine
Weaning

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PMID: 27285680
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2015-0199

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