The statistical basis of selection in animal husbandry. II. Studies on life performance of brood sows: the judging of brood sows by their number of offspring born and reared in the earliest litters
- 1 April 1943
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Agricultural Science
- Vol. 33 (2) , 74-84
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021859600010637
Abstract
To study the total-life performance of all the 156 sows, they were divided into groups consisting of sows having produced 73 to 77, 78 to 82, 83 to 87, … pigs throughout their breeding life often litters. The frequency distribution, of total number of offspring born, thus obtained is shown in Fig. 2.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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