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

Thank you for your attention

Jørgen Kongsro jorgen.kongsro@norsvin.no