Purebred Yorkshire gilts from a confinement managed herd were reared to test weights away from the sow and boar herd. Thirty-eight gilts weighing between 73 and 80 kilograms constituted group A gilts; 38 gilts weighing between 91 and 100 kilograms constituted group B gilts; and 47 gilts weighing 114 kilograms...
Thirty-six gilts were used in an experiment of 2³ factorial
design. The experiment consisted of two breeds (Yorkshire-
Berkshire and Yorkshire), two feeding regimens (pre-breeding and
post-breeding) and two levels of dichlorvos (2, 2-dichlorovinyl
dimethyl phosphate, 0 and 800 mg. per gilt per day). Pre-breeding
treatment consisted of feeding dichlorvos...
An experiment was conducted with 51 control and 51 experimental confinement-
managed purebred Yorkshire sows of various parities to (1) determine
whether confinement-managed sows during lactation would exhibit estrus,
mate, and conceive as a consequence of a daily regimen of a short period of
separation from their litters, mixing sows...
Growth data compiled in this study were collected by using
pigs farrowed during the fall, 1963 and spring, 1964 farrowing seasons
of the Oregon State University swine herd. Thirty-seven trios
of light-, medium- and heavy-birth-weight suckling pigs were used to
determine the effect of birth weight on subsequent rate of...
Oregon State University swine herd records of four genetic
groups were analyzed to determine: (1) the association of occurrence
of a small litter (≤ 7) at birth with size of subsequent litters
for gilts and sows, separately; (2) the effect of parity, genetic background
and litter size on mean birth...
Purebred Yorkshire gilts with weights ranging from 70 to 105
kilograms were moved from a total-confinement rearing unit to a
total-confinement brood stock unit where approximately ten gilts
per pen were mixed to provide new penmates. Each gilt was thus
exposed to an unfamiliar environment and to foreign penmates along...
In a swine production and breeding experiment, Yorkshire
gilts were evaluated for the influences of heredity-and some environmental components on occurrence of puberty in gilts in confinement. In the first experiment, 186 Yorkshire gilts reared and
maintained in total confinement were used in a study to assess
effects of several...
At weights of 81.5-90.5 kg, 187 prepuberal crossbred gilts were
subjected to specific environmental stimuli, for up to 17 days, to
determine which stimuli or combinations of various ones would initiate
onset of estrus in prepuberal gilts. The stimuli used were:
movement to new building, mixing or non-mixing of gilts,...
A study was made of blood glucose levels and their relationship
to reproduction in gilts.
Twelve blood samples, two in each of three successive weeks,
before and after breeding were taken. Half of the samples were
obtained from gilts in a fasting state and half after feeding. All
samples were...