DanBred Duroc: Sustainable and documented breeding for more than 30 years
DanBred Duroc makes your business highly competitive, giving you more pork for less costs! DanBred Duroc is used as the terminal sire in the DanBred cross-breeding program, where the performance is excellent in combination with the DanBred Hybrid. DanBred Duroc produces large litters as well as fast growing finisher pigs with low feed conversion ratio […]
Increased focus on robust DanBred animals through additional breeding progress for conformation
Breeding & Genetics, SEGES Pig Production constantly strives to increase the breeding progress for DanBred’s customers. A new method for evaluating the breeding animals’ genetic heredity for conformation will ensure an even better robustness of slaughter pigs and sows through increased leg and back strength. Today, the conformation of the breeding candidates in DanBred’s breeding […]
Breeding for robustness in pigs: Conformation
This is the first of two articles on breeding for robustness in pigs and focuses on confirmation. The second article will cover sow longevity. by Dr Birgitte Ask, Senior Scientist, Genetics and Lizette Vestergaard Pedersen, Consultant, Danish Pig Research Centre. The breeding of robust pigs is a substantial key input factor to global pig production […]
BREEDING FOR SOCIAL PIGS: A NEW ASPECT OF GENETIC PROGRESS
Why social pigs are a gain for DanBred customers Great news. The results from this unique study pave the way for new opportunities for setting even more balanced breeding goals that can improve productivity and welfare simultaneously. In the future, this means the inclusion of a new social trait in the DanBred breeding goal, which […]
DanBred launches new manual for handling on-farm boars
Building on the success of the Sow & Gilt Manual launched in the autumn of 2018, DanBred now releases a new comprehensive boar handling manual. This is part of DanBred’s increasing commitment to knowledge sharing and working together with leading pig producers for profitable growth. Trine Lund Pedersen, Head of Technical Services at DanBred, says: […]
DanBred boosts genetic gain in feed conversion by an additional 10 %
DanBred recently increased its performance testing capacity by 25 % on boar testing station Bøgildgård, which means that more than 7,500 boars are now being tested for individual feed efficiency annually. This higher capacity leads to an increase in genetic gain in feed conversion ratio (FCR) by an additional 10 %. Feed efficiency is the […]
