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Zagreb22 October 2014

Save costs with DanBred breeding pigs

Danish Pig Production

By

Meroujan Ogannisian

Area manager

DanBred International

Lyskaer 3EF 1st 2730 Herlev, Denmark

Phone + 45 24 40 85 33, Fax + 45 33 91 60 15

[email protected] - www.danbredint.dk

mailto:[email protected]

Agenda

• Danish Pig Breeding scheme – DanBred

• DanBred International (export)

Organizational structure

5.514 Pig Producers

Danish Agriculture & Food Council

Environment & Energy

Research & foodstuffs

Foodstuffs security & Veterinary conditions

Industrial policy

Commercial policy & sales

Pig Research Centre

Bruxelles

DanBred Genetic programme

Breeding / Multiplier Herds

Pig production in Denmark

X

D LY/YL

Breeding structure

• Three breeds (heterosis)

• Specialized breeding objectives (breed type)

• 30 breeders – 16.474 sows

• 141 (169-28) multipliers – 59.968 sows

Danish pig breeds

Landrace Yorkshire

Duroc

The genetic nucleus

Breeder BreederBreederBreeder

AI

Test

station

Expected Progress Landrace & Yorkshire

Weighting of traits in the breeding objective of LL/YY– economic contribution

Expected progress Duroc

Weighting of traits in the breeding objective of Duroc– economic contribution

Selection Criteria (Traits measured)

• On-Farm

– ADG, nursery

– ADG, finish

– Percent Lean

– Conformation

– Total number born

– Live pigs, day 5

• Test Station (males only)

– ADG, finish

– Percent Lean

– Conformation

– Feed Efficiency

– Yield

• Multiplication

– Total number born

– Live pigs, day 5

– Longevity

• The success/failure of purebred sows mated for their first litter that were also mated for their second litter

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Parentage Testing

Test needs – Sire, Dam and

offspring

Example - nucleus herds

At service XBlood to biobank

At AI quarantineBlood to biobank

Test – young boar

and dam

At service X

Blood to biobank

Test – only dam

Genetic Progress – Feed Efficiency

-0.18

-0.16

-0.14

-0.12

-0.1

-0.08

-0.06

-0.04

-0.02

0

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

FE

s/k

g

Duroc Landrace Yorkshire

Litter size developmentTrend in live born piglets at day five in nucleus and multiplier herds– since the 2004 introduction of this trait

Increase in litter size for first parity sows Increase in number of live born per litter

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Pigs weaned per sow per year 2003-2011

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Pigs weaned per litter 2003-

2011

Productivity in DanBred Breeds

Breed Daily Gain(30-100 kg)

Lean Meat %

LitterSize

% Gilt litters(1. parity sows)

Danish Landrace 1.013 g/day 62,5 15 55,2

Danish Large White 901 g/day 61,2 15,9 59,6

Danish Duroc 1.040 g/day 61,6 9,5 66,8

Nucleus herds – litter size of purebred litters, 2009/10

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GENETIC

IMPROVEMENT

ECONOMIC

WEIGHT,

EURO

VALUE OF GENETIC

IMPROVEMENT,

EURO

(At A 100% IMPACT)

GENETIC

DISSEMINATION

TO PRODUCTION

IMPROVEMENT

IN PROFIT

CONTRIBUTION,

EURO/PIG

DAILY WEIGHT GAIN (0-30 KG) -1.0 g/day 0.01 -0.01 (100 %) -0.01

DAILY WEIGHT GAIN (30-100

KG)

12.7 g/day 0.02 0.25 80 % 0.20

FEED CONVERSION RATIO -0.036 FEs/kg -17.84 0.64 80 % 0.53

LEAN MEAT PERCENTAGE 0.10 % 1.15 0.12 150 % 0.17

KILLING OUT PERCENTAGE -0.02 kg/pig -0.66 0.01 (100 %) 0.01

LP5 (LIVE PIGLETS AT DAY 5) 0.28 pig** 1.48** 0.41 85 % 0.35

CONFORMATION 0.03 point* 1.68 0.05 (100 %) 0.05

LONGEVITY -0.001 %** 5.70** -0.01 (100 %) -0.01

AVERAGE OF THE MOST RECENT 4 YEARS AND ALL BREEDS 1.46 1.29

*Duroc, ** Yorkshire and Landrace

Guaranteed economic growth - finishers

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DanAvl Five Herds from Top level in 2011

Herd Rank 1 2 3 4 5 Av.Top

25 %

Weaned pigs per year per sow* 36.6 34.6 34.0 33.7 33.4 28.8 31.5

Feed unit per sow/year FU 1705 1540 1726 — 1544 1538 1527

Gilt Percentage (%) 25.0 19.0 26.0 30.0 19.0 23.9 22.8

Live-born pigs per litter 16.2 16.0 15.3 16.1 15.7 14.8 15.5

Weaned pigs per litter 15.1 15.0 14.0 14.4 14.3 12.7 13.6

Age at weaning (days) 27.0 31.0 26.0 29.0 31.0 30.7 29.5

Weight at weaning (kg) 6.6 6.9 6.3 7.8 8.0 7.1 6.9

Mortality during lactating period (%) 6.9 6.0 9.0 10.8 8.8 13.9 12.2

Farrowing rate (%) 94.9 88.0 92.0 90.8 92.5 86.7 90.0

More than 30 piglets weaned per sow per year?!

• Top genetics

• Cross breeding

• Top housing

• Top management

• ‘No loss should hit us which can be avoided with constant care’

Lyskær 3EF, 1st floor | DK-2730 Herlev | Tel.: +45 38 41 01 41 | E -mail: [email protected] | www.danbredint.dk


• Export of Danish Breeding Pigs• DanBred International Service Programmes

• GenePro – Genetic advantage Programme• Advisory Programme• Education (6 week programme)


King Frederik IX’s Award

for excellence in export

Sales and Export Associationfor Breeding Pigs

Countries with DanBred breeding stock

America:• Brazil

• Canada

• Mexico

• Peru

• USA

• Venezuela

Europe:

• Austria

• Belgium

• Bulgaria

• Croatia

• Czech

Republic

• France

• Germany

• Greece

• Hungary

• Italy

• Latvia

• Lithuania

• Macedonia

• Netherlands

• Norway

• Poland

• Portugal

• Romania

• Russia

• Slovakia

• Serbia

• Spain

• Sweden

• Ukraine

• UK

Africa:

• Kenya

• Nigeria

• South

Africa

• Tanzania

Asia:

• China

• Japan

• Korea,

Republic of

• Malaysia

• Philippines

• Taiwan

• Thailand

• Vietnam

DanBred Int. Export by TruckUsing High Health Transportation

DanBred Int. export by Airplane

Pig HealthDanish Pig Disease Status

• Denmark is free of all major ‘exotic’ diseases. Last recorded outbreak of:

– Foot and Mouth (1983)

– Classical Swine Fever (1933)

– Aujeszky’s (1991)

– Swine Vesicular Disease (never recorded)

• Major research undertaken to control major ‘endemic’ diseases, e.g. pneumonia, lawsonia

• Major research undertaken to understand and control ‘new’ diseases, e.g. PRRS, PMWS

• National control of ‘zoonotic’ bacteria, e.g. Salmonella

Veterinary health contract

• Monthly visit by the vet.

• Written health plan 12 times a year

• No ”prophylactic” use of antibiotics allowed

• Antibiotics prescribed for 35 days only

• Other vets are not allowed to prescribe medicine

• The farmer must register all medical treatments

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50000

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150000

200000

250000

1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003

Year

Kg

acti

ve m

ate

rial

Therapeutic AGP Total Pigs Pigs etimated

G/pig 6,1 7,0 7,6 5,7 3,5 2,7 3,1 3,0 3,3

Use of antibiotics in Danish livestock production

DanBred International in front

• Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen

• Participating breeds

Table 1. Participating breeds

DanBred BHZP Hülsenberger JSR LRS PIC Topigs

Boar Pietrain Pietrain Pietrain Pietrain Pietrain Pietrain Pietrain

Sow Dan-Hybrid Db-Naima Hülsenberger Gena 90 Rhein-hybrid Camborought Topigs20

LW x LL 23

• P x L x W crossbred pigs

• 104 animals (half females and half barrows)

• Test period From 30 – 121 kg.


• Animal performance

• Dan-Hybrid sows – superior

Table 2. Animal performance and carcass quality

DanBred BHZP Hülsenberger JSR LRS PIC TOPIGS Average

Daily gain g/day 942 877 906 851 875 875 878 887

Feed conversion kg/kg 2.43 2.58 2.51 2.58 2.56 2.55 2.58 2.54

Feed intake kg/day 2.28 2.25 2.26 2.19 2.23 2.22 2.26 2.24

P2 fat, cm 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20

Lean meat, % 58.9 58.6 58.7 59.4 58.5 58.3 57.2 58.5

Ham size, kg 18.3 18.2 18.1 18.4 18.1 18.0 17.7 18.1


• Reproduction

• DanBred - 1,32 piglets better than the second best

• Weaned pigs per litter

Table 3. Reproduction results

DanBred BHZP Hülsenberger JSR LRS PIC TOPIGS Average

Liveborn pigs per litter 13.63 11.74 11.70 11.70 11.43 11.80 12.31 12.05

Mortality, piglets per litter 1.86 1.71 1.55 1.55 1.52 1.99 1.48 1.69

Weaned pigs

11.04 10.03 10.04 10.14 9.96 9.93 10.74 10.27per litter


• Economic value

• DanBred – 8,33 €/pig better

Table 4. Economical contribution per pig shown as difference to the average contribution of the participating breeds.

Economy/profit DanBred BHZP Hülsenberger JSR LRS PIC TOPIGS

€ per pig 8.33 -2.32 0.82 -1.45 -1.26 -2.92 -1.39

• Conclusion – DanBred outclasses all other breeds

Save Costs with DanBred - 1

• DanBred:

13,63 piglet liveborn x 2,35 = 32,03 psy

x 3000 sows = 96.090 piglets


• XXX:

11,80 piglet liveborn x 2,35 = 27,73 psy

x 3000 sows = 83.190 piglets


• 96.090 – 83.190 = 12.900 : 32,03: =

402 sows less by using DanBred

• FCR – 8,4 kg feed saved(30-100 kg)= EUR 3,3

• DGL – 1 week faster 30-100 kg

DanBred TOP results

» Landrace Large White Duroc

• Born / Litter (live) 32 31 -

• Daily Gain(30-100 kg) 1439 1326 1413

• FCR 1,79 1,86 1,66

The best results obtained by single sow / animal

last 365 days.

DanBredint.dk

Thank you for your attention!

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