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Estimation of sire with feeding regime interaction in pigs

Estimation of sire with feeding regime interaction in pigs

Authors :
M. K. Curran
N. D. Cameron
Robin Thompson
Source :
Animal Science. 46:87-95
Publication Year :
1988
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1988.

Abstract

The interaction of sire with feeding regime (ad libitum and restricted) was assessed in the first stage of a selection experiment. There were 79 sires (59 Large White (Edinburgh) and 20 British Landrace (Wye)) with 1549 progeny (745 at Edinburgh and 804 at Wye) in the study. Progeny within each litter were allocated at random to each feeding regime. Pigs started test at 30 (± 3) kg and finished test at 85 (± 5) kg for ad libitum fed pigs or after 84 days on test for restricted fed pigs. All pigs were individually penned. At the end of test, food intake, weight off test and ultrasonic backfat depths were recorded. Variance components were estimated using restricted maximum likelihood and a weighted analysis took account of the different residual variances between feeding regimes, within each breed.There were differences in some genetic parameters due to feeding regime within breeds. No evidence of a sire with feeding regime interaction for average daily gain or food conversion ratio was detected in Large White pigs (genetic correlations between ad libitum and restricted feeding were 1·21 (s.e. 0·17) and 0·89 (s.e. 0·19) respectively). Similar conclusions could not be made for the sample of British Landrace pigs due to the large standard errors of the genetic correlation estimates. For ultrasonic backfat depths, the negative estimates of sire variances under restricted feeding prevent calculation of the genetic correlations and conclusions to be made about the sire with feeding regime interaction.

Details

ISSN :
1748748X and 13577298
Volume :
46
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Animal Science
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........d6af041c717f9163d81c97272fb52214
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003356100003147