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Digital phenotyping for feet & leg selection on pigs
PIC has long used a scoring system to describe how animals’ front and rear legs move.
Good locomotion scores correlate with robustness, longer-lasting and better-performing animals in commercial sow herds. Selection’s officer previously scored gilts and boars on a scale of 1 to 10 for leg structure, focusing on front and hind legs.
Digital phenotyping enables more precise evaluation of locomotion and sow lameness by using high resolution cameras in combination with software of image analysis and specific algorithms developed with the support of artificial intelligence.
Data from Digital phenotyping helps to identify and improve heritable traits related to feet and leg quality of breeding animals, minimizing sow lameness in the breeding herd and enhancing sow longevity.
This technology also improves leg structure, animals’ robustness, animal welfare and profitability for producers.
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