Electroejaculation produces 0.4–0.8 ml of semen, which can be placed through a bulbed pipette into the vagina (Rowlands, 1957, Freund, 1969). In some electroejaculated boars, the ejaculum coagulates in the urethra. Alternatively, sperm can be harvested from the vasa deferentia and epididy...
researchers have segregated pigs based on the size of their tusks (lower third molar): wild boars typically have broader and longer tusks than domestic pigs. Overall body size (in particular, measures of knucklebones [astralagi], front
They could all be boars (males). Are you prepared to separate boars at 3 weeks into separate cages? A boar can get his mother pregnant as early as 3 weeks old. Are you prepared to deal with any fights requiring separation of adolescents as any of them mature--within a few months? Do...
Semen collection from boars in AI-centres is performed approximately 2 times per week (Vyt et al., 2007). The extension process should be done in a warm room with clean and sterile equipment. The extender is added to the semen, and cold shock should be avoided by diminishing the ...
Here, we make the assumption that the outbreak started on a domestic pig farm at the time of first detection, assuming that the pathogen was introduced to the island via the importation of an infected domestic pig, and that there were no infected wild boars at that time. This simplifying ...
natural selection or gene flow. The genomic diversity of local Chinese pig breeds was closely associated with breeding practices, such as the free-range breeding of Tibetan pigs by Tibetans, which may have increased gene flow with local wild boars and resulted in faster linkage disequilibrium decay...
Transcriptomic analysis of testis and epididymis tissues from Banna mini-pig inbred line boars with single-molecule long-read sequencing. Biol. Reprod. 108, 465–478 (2023). Article PubMed Google Scholar Heintz, C. et al. Splicing factor 1 modulates dietary restriction and TORC1 pathway ...
Tests that assess the recognition abilities of pigs can be subdivided into the recognition of objects, conspecifics (social recognition), and humans. Object recognition Moustgaard et al. (2002) demonstrated that Göttingen minipig boars are able to acquire the object recognition test (ORT). Non-...
The addition of ZnO to the diet of piglets maintained the health of their intestinal tract, increased the number of CD3+ T cells, and decreased IL-10 production, which in turn reduced the rate of diarrhea in early-weaned piglets (Oh et al., 2021). Overall, at appropriate concentrations, ...
scrofa specimen breeds were Berkshire (5), Cornwall (8), Tamworth (5), Veredeltes Landschwein (13), Hannover–Braunschweig Landschwein (3) and Deutsches Edelschwein (8), as well as a small sample (10) of first generation Tamworth × Wild pig hybrids (domestic sows bred with wild boars)...