ArticleGenetics, selection, evolution : GSE2024
Breeding for resilience in finishing pigs can decrease tail biting, lameness and mortality.
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- Insights into pig resilience: the Microbiome-genetic connection.Porcine health management · 2026Review
- Daily feed intake patterns of purebred nucleus boars as genetic indicators for disease resilience of crossbred barrows under a natural polymicrobial disease challenge.Journal of animal science · 2026Article
- Genetic Parameters of Resilience Indicators Across Growth in Beef Heifers and Their Associations With Weight, Reproduction, Calf Performance and Pre-Weaning Survival.Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie · 2026Article
- Genetic Strategies for Improving Pig Robustness: Reducing Antibiotic Use Through Enhanced Resilience and Disease Resistance.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Genetic parameters and potential of reducing tail and ear damage in pigs through breeding.Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2025Article
- Detecting ear lesions in slaughtered pigs through open-source convolutional neural networks.Porcine health management · 2025Article
- Capturing resilience from phenotypic deviations: a case study using feed consumption and whole genome data in pigs.BMC genomics · 2024Article
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backgroundPrevious research showed that deviations in longitudinal data are heritable and can be used as a proxy for pigs' general resilience. However, only a few studies investigated the relationship between these resilience traits and other traits related to resilience and welfare. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between resilience traits derived from deviations in longitudinal data and traits related to animal resilience, health and welfare, such as tail and ear biting wounds, lameness and mortality.
resultsIn our experiment, 1919 finishing pigs with known pedigree (133 Piétrain sires and 266 crossbred dams) were weighed every 2 weeks and scored for physical abnormalities, such as lameness and ear and tail biting wounds (17,066 records). Resilience was assessed via deviations in body weight, deviations in weighing order and deviations in observed activity during weighing. The association between these resilience traits and physical abnormality traits was investigated and genetic parameters were estimated. Deviations in body weight had moderate heritability estimates (h
conclusionsIn summary, our findings show that breeding for resilience traits based on deviations in longitudinal weight data can decrease pigs' tail biting wounds, lameness and mortality while improving uniformity at the pen level. These findings are valuable for pig breeders, as they offer evidence that these resilience traits are an indication of animals' general health, welfare and resilience. Moreover, these results will stimulate the quantification of resilience via longitudinal body weights in other species.
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