Responses to novel situations of female and castrated male pigs with divergent social breeding values and different backtest classifications in barren and straw-enriched housing

The growth of a pig is not only affected by its own genes, but also by the genes of its pen mates. This indirect effect on a pig’s growth is represented as social breeding value (SBV) in a newly developed breeding model. It has been hypothesized that pigs could affect their pen mates’ growth through […]