Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Regional Campus of International Excellence "Mare Nostrum", University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.

Effect of Sow Body Weight at First Service on Body Status and Performance during First Parity and Lifetime.

Published in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI

In this retrospective study, we aimed to assess the effect of body weight (BW) at first service on body status development and sow performance during first parity and lifetime efficiency. A total of 360 DanBred gilts were used, which we categorized into three groups according to their BW: (1) Small sows (150 kg BW; n = 63). We studied the gilts fro...