Table 1.
Rearing phase: | Weaning | Fattening | SEM | Year | SEM | P -value | ||||||||
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Productive chain1: | PRRS– | PRRS+ | PRRS– | PRRS+ | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Chain | Phase | C × P | Year | ||
Pig (thousand) | 116.0 | 65.3 | 108.2 | 54.4 | 6.1 | 84.1 | 79.8 | 81.9 | 98.1 | 6.14 | <0.0001 | 0.16 | 0.80 | 0.21 |
Starting live weight, kg | 7.1 | 6.9 | 32.0 | 31.7 | 0.8 | 18.4 | 18.8 | 21.1 | 19.3 | 0.8 | 0.75 | <0.0001 | 0.92 | 0.12 |
Final live weight, kg | 32.2 | 31.3 | 170.9 | 168.5 | 1.1 | 99.2 | 100.5 | 101.5 | 101.7 | 1.1 | 0.16 | <0.0001 | 0.50 | 0.42 |
Average age, days | 55.9 | 59.8 | 199.0 | 203.4 | 1.9 | 132.1 | 130.7 | 126.4 | 128.9 | 1.9 | 0.058 | <0.0001 | 0.90 | 0.25 |
Daily live weight gain, g | 449 | 407 | 699 | 674 | 9.0 | 541 | 559 | 566 | 563 | 8.57 | 0.003 | <0.0001 | 0.36 | 0.23 |
Feed to gain | 1.71 | 1.83 | 3.43 | 3.62 | 0.05 | 2.76 | 2.72 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 0.05 | 0.009 | <0.0001 | 0.51 | 0.01 |
Total losses2 | 2.55A | 14.49B | 4.64A | 9.04AB | 1.61 | 9.47 | 9.72 | 5.92 | 5.61 | 1.61 | 0.001 | 0.32 | 0.04 | 0.20 |
Cost index2 | 1.63aB | 1.91bB | 0.88A | 0.93A | 0.05 | 1.41 | 1.37 | 1.27 | 1.3 | 0.05 | 0.008 | <0.0001 | 0.04 | 0.20 |
Medication costs2, €/kg | 0.04A | 0.12B | 0.03A | 0.04A | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.005 | 0.33 |
PRRS–, the production chain originated from sows seronegative for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome; PRRS+, the production chain originated from sows seropositive for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome.
Means with differently labeled letters are significantly different at p <0.05 (lowercase) or p <0.01 (uppercase).