The variety of examined breeding pigs has elevated significantly in our breeding herds over the previous 12 months. The rise means a fair stronger breeding index for manufacturing herds with DanBred genetics.

120,000 pigs in a single 12 months. That’s what number of 30-100 kg pigs have been via our testing throughout 2023. That’s 10,000 pigs extra in comparison with the 12 months earlier than. Amongst different issues, this is because of higher administration within the herds. As well as, the brand new trait for increased piglet survival within the breeding objective has had a optimistic impact on the variety of piglets.

“The rise exhibits that the herds are doing nicely. The breeders are expert at what they do. And the big quantity of animals helps guarantee nice outcomes for the person traits within the breeding objective,” says Martin Mølgaard Pedersen, Head of Division in Breeding & Genetics, Danish Agriculture & Meals Council.

The rise in animals examined means extra exact knowledge, and this has accelerated the breeding progress. In comparison with 2018, DanBred breeding pigs in 2023 have a median of 0.8 % increased meat proportion, develop 76 g extra per day, and use 0.14 kg much less feed per kg development.

Ensures good funding

Up to now, it has been essential to sanitise a number of the herds as a result of they have been affected by PRRS or different ailments, which meant that the pigs couldn’t be used for breeding. However in 2023, none of DanBred’s breeding herds have been affected by illness.

“We’ve got benefitted rather a lot from the truth that there was much less diseased pigs on the breeders. We are able to due to this fact improve the knowledge of the determine for breeding values and thus the index of all animals within the inhabitants,” says Martin Mølgaard Pedersen.

Along with growing the knowledge of the premise behind the breeding traits, the higher variety of animals examined additionally permits us to extend the depth of choice within the breeds. The depth of choice is elevated by the truth that it’s potential to seek out the easiest candidates who bounce the dimensions for the particular traits in our breeding objectives.

“Each the knowledge of the breeding traits and the depth of choice are necessary to be able to obtain the best potential breeding progress for the funding that pig producers put into the breeding work,” he explains.

From breeder to Bøgildgård

A necessary issue for DanBred’s breeding work is the testing station Bøgildgård. For 43 years, Bøgildgård has contributed to creating the breeding work extra environment friendly and guaranteeing the nice finisher pig traits that DanBred genetic is thought for.

“The a lot bigger variety of breeding pigs additionally give extra sure outcomes from Bøgildgård. Right here, we are able to measure feed consumption on younger boars and thus feed consumption per kg development for the measured animals. We measure feed effectivity and feed consumption with nice accuracy on many boars yearly,” says Martin Mølgaard Pedersen and provides:

“Primarily based on the correlations between feed consumption, development fee, and meat proportion, we are able to extract information about feed consumption in animals measured for development and meat proportion within the testing on the breeding herds.”

The information registered at Bøgildgård enters the DanBred Databank, the place it’s used to calculate the DanBred index and, thus, discover the boars with the most effective genetics which can be forwarded to the KS stations. With a check station like Bøgildgård, we are able to register and breed for crucial traits and speed up the breeding progress in your herd. This has helped DanBred’s breeding system change into among the finest on the planet.