Body Weight and Morphological Traits of Large White and Kolbroek Pig Breeds
- Department of Livestock and Pasture Science, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
- Department of Plant Protection, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin 130118, China.
- Department of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science and Technology Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun .130118, P. R. China.
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The aim of the study was to determine the morphological features of Large White and Kolbreok pig breeds based on relationship among body weight. A total of twenty-four weaned (12 Large White, 12 Kolbroek) at the age of eight weeks; male sex animals were randomly allocated into 3 groups of 4 for each breed. The traits BW, EL, HL, RL, RH; RW, HG and WH were analysed by using Generalized Linear Model (GLM) procedure of SAS (2003). The linear body measurement data was collected by tape measure. The Kolbroek pig breed had a mean of 5.00 kg at 2 months of age male and Large White had 5.17 kg body weight. They was no significant different (p>0.05) in the body weight between the two breeds. Kolbroek pig had long head length, rump length, heart girth than Large White (p>0.05). In all body measurements were positive and significant (p<0.05/0.01/0.001). The highly significant morphological variable correlation coefficient between BW includes BL, RL, RW, and HG of 0.76; 0.57; 0.78; 0.68 respectively (p<0.001) and correlation coefficient between BW includes EL was not significant (p>0.05). To conclude the ear lengths had been shown poorly with other body measurements and contributes less total variable of body conformation. The Kolbroek pig had lower body weight than Large White pigs.
[Hlengiwe Winnie Kutwana,Masibonge Gxasheka,Thobela Louis Tyasi. (2015); Body Weight and Morphological Traits of Large White and Kolbroek Pig Breeds Int. J. of Adv. Res. 3 (Oct). 105-109] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
