Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10893365 | Theriogenology | 2005 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
An AI centre serving a variety of customers must select boars in anticipation of their customers' needs (including new, foreign and niche markets). A centre should also review its genetic evaluation results and progeny records, both to critique its own selection success and to try to detect unexpected linkages. Finally, an AI centre needs to predict its own future, selecting not just for production traits for the swine producer, but also for factors that enhance the centre's efficiency including boar conformation and temperament, and sperm quantity, quality and hardiness. Can we select for efficiency? Our colleagues in dairy cattle AI evaluate bull performance-should the swine industry consider evaluation of male fertility traits?
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Authors
J.A.B. Robinson, M.M. Buhr,