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A promising resilience parameter for breeding: the use of weight and feed trajectories in growing pigs.

Wim GorssenCarmen WintersRoel MeyermansLéa ChapardKatrijn HooyberghsSteven JanssensAbe HuismanKatrijn PeetersHan MulderNadine Buys
Published in: Journal of animal science and biotechnology (2023)
Our results will help future studies investigating resilience traits and resilience-related traits. Moreover, our study provides first results on standardization of quality control and efficient data sampling from automated feeding station data. Our findings will be valuable for breeding organizations as they offer evidence that pigs' general resilience can be selected on with good accuracy. Moreover, this methodology might be extended to other species to quantify resilience based on longitudinal data.
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