Associations among individual gilt birth weight, litter birth weight phenotype and the efficiency of replacement gilt production.
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DOI: 10.1093/jas/skaa331
Abstract: Selection for larger litter size has increased the number of individual low birth weight pigs (BWi) and produced sows with a repeatable low average litter birth weight phenotype (BWP). Using an average of 3.6 litters… read more here.
Keywords: replacement; bwp; gilt; birth ... See more keywords