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Genesus global technical report: Large litters and piglet quality a necessary tradeoff?

2018-09-24 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

Litter size at birth has been considered one of the most important traits for evaluating sow prolificacy for the past few decades. Genetic selection for highly prolific sows has resulted in notable improvement in litter size at birth in pigs.

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