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. 2020 Jun 19;14(11):2236–2245. doi: 10.1017/S1751731120001275

Table 2.

Heritability (h2), genetic and residual variances for traits for growing pigs fed the conventional (CO) and high-fibre (HF) diet, along with their standard error (SE)

CO diet HF diet
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.