The cost of batch variability as a component of economic values for robustness traits

Title
The cost of batch variability as a component of economic values for robustness traits
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Amer, P
Hermesch, S
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9647-5988
Email: skahtenb@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:skahtenb
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers
Place of publication
Wageningen, Netherlands
Series
EAAP Book of Abstracts
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/31360
Abstract

While selection for performance traits has been very successful in pigs, the resulting genotypes require understanding of the economic consequences of increased environmental sensitivity should incentivise development and use of new selection criteria and trait weightings in pig breeding programs that lead to improved long term outcomes of selection. The economic value of having more uniform performance assumptions made about the price of feed and the base per kg carcase price. While these parameters have higher weights leading to greater average revenue per pig. improved management and also appear to have greater susceptibility to environmental fluctuations. A better across a batch of finishing pigs is not well understood.

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Citation
Book of Abstracts of the 64th Annual Meeting of the European Federation for Animal Production, p. 136-136
ISSN
1362-6077
ISBN
9789086867820
9789086862283
Start page
136
End page
136

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