Table 4.

Genetic parameter of average daily gain on growth traits fitting animal model, permanent environmental effects due to the dam (pe) and litter effects (lit).

	ADG
Months (M)	Birth – 3M	3–6M	3–9M	3–12M	Birth – 6M	6–9M	Birth – 9M	9–12M	Birth – 12 M
model	pe_lit	pe_lit	lit	lit	pe_lit	lit	pe_lit	lit	pe_lit
σ2a	0.0079	0.0072	0.0023	0.0017	0.0047	0.0020	0.0022	0.0025	0.0014
σ2pe	0.0030	0.0003	–	–	0.0013	–	0.0005	–	0.0003
σ2lit	0.0130	0.0083	0.0044	0.0024	0.0031	0.0097	0.0025	0.0094	0.0019
σ2res	0.0204	0.0328	0.0199	0.0136	0.0147	0.0437	0.0119	0.0363	0.0090
σ2pheno	0.0444	0.0485	0.0266	0.0177	0.0239	0.0555	0.0171	0.0481	0.0125
s.e.	0.0010	0.0011	0.0006	0.0004	0.0006	0.0012	0.0004	0.0011	0.0003
h2	0.18	0.15	0.09	0.10	0.20	0.04	0.13	0.05	0.11
s.e.	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.03
pe2	0.07	0.01	–	–	0.06	–	0.03	–	0.02
s.e.	0.02	0.02	–	–	0.02	–	0.02	–	0.02
lit2	0.29	0.17	0.16	0.14	0.13	0.18	0.15	0.19	0.15
s.e.	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03

Where σ²_a ∼ direct additive variance, σ²_pe ∼ variance of permanent environment due to the dam; σ²_lit ∼variance due to Litter effects, σ²_res ∼residual variance, σ²_pheno∼ total phenotypic variance, s.e. ∼ standard error.