Article
Maternal effect on body measurement and meat production traits in purebred Duroc pigs.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Mar 2021
Ogawa Shinichiro, Yazaki Natsumi, Ohnishi Chika, Ishii Kazuo, Uemoto Yoshinobu, Satoh Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
We investigated maternal effect on nine body measurement traits (body height, body length, front width (FW), chest width (CW), hind width (HW), chest depth, chest girth (CHG), front cannon circumference (FCC) and rear cannon circumference (RCC)) measured at the end of performance testing and five meat production traits (ages at the start and end of performance testing (D30 and D105), average daily gain (ADG),...
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