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As of 2011, pigs used commercially in the UK and Europe had an FCR, calculated using weight gain, of about 1 as piglets and ending about 3 at time of slaughter. [5] As of 2012 [update] in Australia and using dressed weight for the output, a FCR calculated using weight of dressed meat of 4.5 was fair, 4.0 was considered "good", and 3.8, "very good".
Pigs were originally bred to rapidly gain weight and backfat in the late 1980s. In a more fat-conscious modern day America, pigs are now being bred to have less back fat and produce more offspring, which pushes the sow's body too far and is deemed one of the causes of the current prolapse epidemic.
Pig we get from Arby’s in 1983. Photo by Jaan Künnap. Pigs are slaughtered at different ages. Generally they can be divided into piglets, which are 1.5 to 3 months old; the fattening pigs, intended for pork and bacon, which are 4 months to one year old; and finally the older pigs, such as sows (female pigs) and boars (uncastrated male pigs).
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Pigs have a well-developed sense of smell; this is exploited in Europe where trained pigs find underground truffles. [75] Pigs have 1,113 genes for smell receptors, compared to 1,094 in dogs; this may indicate an acute sense of smell, but against this, insects have only around 50 to 100 such genes but make extensive use of olfaction. [76]
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Pigs from the Australian Yorkshire breed contain higher growth rates and a more “favourable feed-conversion ratio than other pig lines in Vietnam." [ 8 ] Vietnamese researchers have found that experiments which test the live weight of pigs by feeding the breeds the same nutritional intake produces a 5% increase in the weight of pigs who ...