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Field testing of young breeding pigs. I. – Description of the construction of a performance index

FIELD TESTING OF YOUNG BREEDING PIGS 1() 1. - DESCRIPTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PERFORMANCE INDEX D. MINKEMA Research Institute for Animal Husbandry a Schoonoord ?, Driebergseweg 10d, Zeist, the Netherlands In order to construct a performance index, that could be used in field testing of young breeding pigs, samples of gilts and of boars from the Dutch Landvace breed and the Dutch York- 2 shire breed were measured or 2 times. The sample sizes varied from 150 to 86. 3 The index chosen was a linear combination of 2 scores : a score for weight and a score for backfat thickness. The score for weight was based on the ? average ? regression of weight on age within animals averageregression of backfat thickness on weight The index distribution was scaled in such a way that the index values could vary between o (bad) and 20 (very good). Forpractical use the index values were tabulated. Foreach age class the corresponding index value can be read from these tables for each combination of weight and backfat thickness. The repeatability of the index was in the order of . 85, so it was concluded that for farm testing one measurement would suffice. testing young breeding gilts of 5 i/2-8-months old started in the Netherlands at the end of 1968 in the province of Limburg. During the last years this system became increasingly popular and at the moment about 10 ooo young the animals and measuring their backfat thickness by means of ultrasonics. In order to rank the animals the weight was corrected for age ; backfat thickness was corrected for weight. The corrected values were transformed to scores and a linear combination of both scores gave the final index. Husbandry ? Schoon.oord ?. In practice it turned out that the older animals - andconsequently the heavier animals - usually got a higher index than the younger ones. A preliminary investi- gation showed this was caused by an inaccurate correction of weight for age, this correction having been o