The Run of Depression Resilience Phenotype from a Natural Disease Challenge in Pigs
- Jack C. M. Dekkers (Iowa State University)
- Austin M. Putz (Iowa State University)
- John C. S. Harding (University of Saskatchewan)
- Graham S. Plastow (University of Alberta)
- PigGen Canada (PigGen Canada)
- Michael K. Dyck (University of Agriculture)
- Frédéric Fortin (Centre de développement du porc du Québec)
Abstract
Resilience phenotypes will be needed in the future as livestock industries adopt precision agriculture technology on a large portion of commercial animals. The current study introduces a run of depression (ROD) phenotype to quantify resilience using individual daily feed intake data. This phenotype was lowly heritable (0.11±0.07) but was genetically correlated to mortality (0.75-0.98) and treatment rate (0.61-0.84).
How to Cite:
Dekkers, J. C., Putz, A. M., Harding, J. C., Plastow, G. S., PigGen Canada, Dyck, M. K. & Fortin, F., (2019) “The Run of Depression Resilience Phenotype from a Natural Disease Challenge in Pigs”, Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 16(1).
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