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A female pig is called a gilt before breeding, and a sow after it has produced a litter of piglets. Two diets were offered to ...

Dekkers says sows that have larger litters generally will be more profitable. But litter sizes have a low heritability ...

Several years ago, at a lab near a massive experimental farm in Guangdong Province in China, scientists prepped a whopping 4,008 genetically modified pig embryos for implantation into just 16 sows. It ...