Weaning weight
Effect of within-litter birth weight variation on piglet survival and pre-weaning weight gain in a commercial herd
... birth weight (BWT), presence of a stillborn or mummified lit- termate (PRESENCE), sex of piglet (SEX), whether the piglet was fostered in or out of the litter (FOSTERING), month of weaning, whether the ...
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Evaluation of lambs subjected to a targeted selective treatment anthelmintic regime
... (SURM), weaning weight (WWT), weaning weight maternal (WWTM), live weight at 8 months-of-age (LW8), live weight at 12 months-of-age (LW12), fleece weight at 12 ...
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Report on a breeding objective that may reduce the carbon footprint of extensive cow calf production systems
... the weaning weight of calves in rela- tion to a cow LSU unit (75 MJ Metabolisable Energy need per day) in extensive beef production ...calf weight and cow LSU unit in a selec- tion index will ...
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Polymorphism of Growth Hormone Gene in Selecting Etawah Crossbred (PE) Goats
... birth weight and weaning weight (100 days ...(P<0.01) weaning weight and Thomas et ...birth weight, weaning weight (100 days old) and average daily gain ...
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Genetic Parameter Estimates for Growth and Reproductive Trait of Sheep for Genetic Improvement and Designing Breeding Program in Ethiopia: A Review
... birth weight of Afar sheep ...The weaning weight direct heritability estimates for sheep in Ethiopia, Afar sheep ...and weaning weight for Afar and BHS ...birth weight and ...
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Associations between genetic variants of the POU1F1 gene and production traits in Saanen goats
... birth weight, and weaning weight in ...birth weight in the POU1F1-PstI locus (p < ...Birth weight was found to be higher in animals that have the CC genotype at the POU1F1-PstI ...
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Effects of Three Twice-A-Year Breeding Schedules in Four Breeds of Sheep
... highest weaning weight adjusted for conception rate and greatest litter weaning weight per ewe exposed (P < ...at weaning (P > ...litter weaning weight per ewe ...
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Particularities on the development of body weight from birth to weaning of the Merino of Cluj lambs
... mean weight of lambs at birth obtained annually can see significant differences from year to year, and they are due to climate change and the level of maintenance of the ...birth weight and weaning ...
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Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Kleiber Ratio and Trends for Weight at Birth and Weaning in Arabi Sheep
... Data and pedigree information were collected at the Khuzestan Ramin Agricultural and Natural Resources University, Animal Science Research Station, located in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, from 2001 to 2008. ...
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Evaluating the Impact of Calcium and Phosphorus Supplementation on Mineral Status, Growth Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Low and High Birth-weight Pigs.
... birth weight and weaning weight are significantly correlated with lifetime growth ...birth weight pigs warrant further ...body weight at the end of the nursery ...
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The relationship between lean meat yield and birth weight in New Zealand Romney sheep
... birth weight significantly affected weaning weight of the lamb (table 5 and figure 7) which is of economic importance to lamb production systems as lambs that reach target weights faster and are sent ...
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Economic values of traits for Slovakian Pied cattle under different marketing strategies
... yearling weight was even more im- portant for the strategy with selling non-pregnant heifers (strategies ...was weaning weight and mature weight of cows in strategies A and B, respectively, ...
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Interval mapping of growth quantitative trait loci in Japanese Black beef cattle using microsatellite DNA markers and half sib regression analysis
... birth- weight, weaning weight, yearling weight, and preweaning and postweaning average daily gains was performed by geno- typing half-sib progeny of four Japanese Black sires using ...
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Genetics of flystrike, dagginess and associated traits in New Zealand dual purpose sheep : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... To identify genetic regions associated with dagginess in the New Zealand population of dual-purpose sheep, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed, using estimated breeding values as phenotypes, on ...
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Growth and carcass trait association with variation in the somatostatin receptor 1 (SSTR1) gene in New Zealand Romney sheep
... birth weight showed a moderate correlation with weaning weight, pre- weaning growth rate and HCW, and a weak correlation with the other carcass ...birth weight is moderately cor- ...
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An association analysis of sow parity, live-weight and back-fat depth as indicators of sow productivity
... It is dif fi cult to conclusively determine the effect of both sow live-weight and back-fat depth during gestation on repro- ductive performance as the latter can be in fl uenced by many factors; yet the need to ...
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Inbreeding effects on lamb pre-weaning growth traits and survival in three Iranian sheep breeds
... til weaning at approximately three months of ...the weaning weight, breed characteris- tics, visual body conformation, wool quality scores and birth ...
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Integrated data-collection system tracks beef cattle from conception to carcass
... EPDs for a set of 21 natural-service bulls and six artificial-insemination bulls whose semen was used at SFREC (fig. 3). To show how bull EPDs influence offspring performance in the absence of other effects and to ...
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Genetic parameter estimation of pre weaning growth traits of Fogera cattle at Metekel ranch, northwest Ethiopia
... adjusted weaning and pre weaning average daily ...at weaning weight and on daily gain of the ...on weaning weight and pre weaning average daily gain of Horro cattle and ...
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Influence of live weight at born on growth traits of synthetic broiler rabbit line
... live weight was obtained in group ...live weight caused expressive differences of weight at weaning that show significant differences ( ...the weaning weight was rising in direct ...
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