Breed and environmental factors of sows and their repeatabilities in central Mexico

Background: reproductive traits influence lifetime productivity of sows.Objective: to determine the effects of year and season of farrowing, parity number, and breed, on litter size at birth, weaning to service interval (WSI), farrowing to service interval (FSI), and to estimate their repeatabilitie...

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Main Authors: José C Segura-Correa, José Herrera-Camacho, Rosa E Pérez-Sánchez, Ernestina Gutiérrez-Vázquez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Antioquia 2015-03-01
Series:Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-06902015000100003&lng=en&tlng=en