Selecting for muscling in swine and resulting effects on carcass traits

Wheat, J.D.; Kropf, Donald H.; Hines, Robert H.

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Selecting for muscling in swine and resulting effects on carcass traits

Wheat, J.D.; Kropf, Donald H.; Hines, Robert H.

Litters farrowed total 147 (25 in 1971, 23 in

1972, 33 in 1973, 32 in 1974 and 34 in 1975); pigs total 1196, 1102 alive at birth 94 (8%) dead at birth. Line differences in loin eye area, backfat thickness and age (adjusted to 220 pounds live-weight) have not been significant. Carcass data

collected from 165 barrows indicate the two lines do not yet differ in carcass traits.

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Swine Industry Day 1975 is known as Swine Day, 1975

Keywords: Swine; Muscling; Carcass traits; Farrowing

Conference: Swine Day, Manhattan, KS, November 13, 1975
Starting Page: 29, Ending Page: 30
Publisher: Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service

Date: 1975

Conference paper

Record URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4018

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