Phenotyping of live pigs
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Phenotyping of live pigs
Jørgen Kongsro
history and organization
Phenotyping of live pigs
Jørgen Kongsro
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The phenotype of a pig is is the
composite of organism's observable
characteristics or traits, such as:
body weight growth meat quality leg weakness fertility
Phenotype = Genotype + Environment
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�G =selection intensity ⇥ accuracy
generation interval
Landrace «The mother». Focus on maternal, litter size and robustness traits (79%)
Duroc «The father». Focus on production, carcass and meat quality (77%)
Landrace
30 %
20 % 29 %
3 %6 %
12 %
Production Carcass MeatLitter Maternal Robustness Duroc
22 %
20 %28 %
30 %
Norsvin Delta
Body composition
phenotypes
Meat quality
Structure and robustness
Kongsro, J. (2013). Development of a computer vision system to monitor pig locomotion. Open Journal of Animal Sciences (OJAS), 3(3).
Kongsro, J. (2014). Estimation of pig weight using a Microsoft Kinect prototype imaging system. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 109, 32–35.
Kristin Olstad, NMBU (2010) Torunn Aasmundstad, Norsvin (2014)
Summary
Imaging Phenotypes
Accuracy Genetic gain
Body composition Growth
Meat quality
Diagnostics Animal welfare