Table 2.
CO diet | HF diet | |||||
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h² ± SE | Genetic variance ± SE | Residual variance ± SE | h² ± SE | Genetic variance ± SE | Residual variance ± SE | |
Growth and feed efficiency | ||||||
ADG (g/day) | 0.40 ± 0.06 | 2639 ± 418 | 3444 ± 330 | 0.27 ± 0.11 | 1860 ± 773 | 4371 ± 685 |
DFI (g/day) | 0.53 ± 0.06 | 19 437 ± 2518 | 14 661 ± 1887 | 0.36 ± 0.12 | 14 977 ± 5382 | 23 817 ± 4571 |
FCR (kg/kg) | 0.47 ± 0.08 | 0.01 ± 0.00 | 0.01 ± 0.00 | 0.27 ± 0.11 | 0.01 ± 0.00 | 0.02 ± 0.00 |
RFI (g/day) | 0.34 ± 0.05 | 5139 ± 892 | 8457 ± 733 | 0.41 ± 0.13 | 8448 ± 2765 | 11 877 ± 2319 |
Carcass composition | ||||||
Carcass yield (%) | 0.41 ± 0.07 | 0.60 ± 0.10 | 0.82 ± 0.08 | 0.52 ± 0.12 | 0.93 ± 0.25 | 0.70 ± 0.20 |
BellyP (%) | 0.27 ± 0.06 | 0.25 ± 0.06 | 0.69 ± 0.05 | 0.19 ± 0.10 | 0.16 ± 0.09 | 0.69 ± 0.08 |
LoinP (%) | 0.39 ± 0.06 | 0.62 ± 0.10 | 0.98 ± 0.08 | 0.23 ± 0.11 | 0.33 ± 0.16 | 1.09 ± 0.14 |
BackfatP (%) | 0.58 ± 0.06 | 0.77 ± 0.10 | 0.56 ± 0.07 | 0.54 ± 0.13 | 0.55 ± 0.15 | 0.47 ± 0.12 |
HamP (%) | 0.45 ± 0.06 | 0.43 ± 0.07 | 0.52 ± 0.05 | 0.34 ± 0.12 | 0.28 ± 0.10 | 0.55 ± 0.09 |
ShoulderP (%) | 0.27 ± 0.05 | 0.23 ± 0.05 | 0.64 ± 0.04 | 0.47 ± 0.13 | 0.39 ± 0.12 | 0.45 ± 0.09 |
LMP (%) | 0.62 ± 0.06 | 3.42 ± 0.42 | 2.04 ± 0.31 | 0.56 ± 0.13 | 2.63 ± 0.69 | 1.65 ± 0.54 |
Meat quality | ||||||
upH | 0.21 ± 0.09 | 0.01 ± 0.00 | 0.03 ± 0.00 | 0.16 ± 0.11 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.03 ± 0.00 |
L* | 0.21 ± 0.05 | 2.06 ± 0.50 | 7.54 ± 0.46 | 0.14 ± 0.10 | 1.36 ± 0.94 | 7.80 ± 0.92 |
a* | 0.30 ± 0.05 | 0.84 ± 0.16 | 1.86 ± 0.14 | 0.44 ± 0.12 | 1.06 ± 0.32 | 1.29 ± 0.27 |
b* | 0.20 ± 0.05 | 0.45 ± 0.11 | 1.71 ± 0.10 | 0.08 ± 0.09 | 0.17 ± 0.18 | 1.75 ± 0.18 |
See Table 1 for trait names.