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. 1995 Mar 1;36(1):41–53. doi: 10.1186/BF03547701

Osteochondrosis in Wild Boar–Swedish Yorkshire Crossbred Pigs (F2 Generation)

H Uhlhorn 14,✉, G Dalin 14, N Lundeheim 24, S Ekman 34
PMCID: PMC8095430  PMID: 7572457

Abstract

Osteochondrotic lesions occur in very high frequency in growing pigs of all commercial breeds and are claimed to be associated with high growth rate, and not to occur, or to be milder, in slow-growing pigs. The present study monitored the magnitude and distribution of osteochondrotic lesions in a crossbred pig population of wild boar and Swedish Yorkshire ancestry. In this population, having a low growth rate, the distribution and extent of osteochondrotic lesions was similar to that of purebred Swedish Yorkshire pigs, and only weak relationships between the studied growth parameters and osteochondrosis could be found.

Keywords: growth rate

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Marianne Ekwall for her excellent technical assistance, the Nordic Joint Committee for Agricultural Research and the Swedish Farmers Foundation for Agricultural Research for the support provided for this work.

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