Genetic evaluation for production and body size traits using different animal models in purebred-Duroc pigs.

3.2 Fixed effects analysis Table 2 indicates that the effects of year-season, sex, farm, and parity on traits, including BW, AGE, BL, BH, and FCC were highly significant ( P < 0.05) and thus, were incorporated into the genetic variance statistical model. 3.3 Variance components and genetic parameter estimates When Model 1 was applied in the genetic estimation model in this study, the heritability estimates for BW, AGE, FCR, BL, BH, and FCC were 0.34 ± 0.015, 0.45 ± 0.016, 0.36 ± 0.024, 0.29 ± 0.016, 0.30 ± 0.018, and 0.21 ± 0.020, respectively ( Table 3 ), all of which were of medium heritability.

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