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Selection for components of efficient lean growth in Large White pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

N.D. Cameron
N.D. Cameron *
Affiliation:
AFRC Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Roslin, EH25 9PS
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An experiment was started in 1984 at Edinburgh and Wye to study responses to divergent selection for lean growth rate (LGA), lean food conversion ratio (LFC) and daily food intake (DFI). This paper measured the selection pressure applied, the responses in the selection criteria and estimated the genetic and phenotypic relationships between the selection criteria with ad-libitum feeding of Large White pigs after four generations of selection.

Selection objectives and criteria. The LGA (LFC) selection objective was to obtain equal correlated responses in growth rate (food conversion ratio) and carcass lean content, measured in phenotypic s.d. The LGA, LFC and DFI selection criteria had phenotypic s.d. of 27, 29 and 250 units and results are presented in s.d. units.

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Pig Genetics 1
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1994 , March 1994 , pp. 9
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1994

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