What is the Pic’let project ?

What is the Pic’let project ?

The Pic’Let project, which started in January 2020, is the result of a collaboration between Alliance R&D, which is composed of several French pig breeding companies including Choice and IFIP (the French national pig institute) with Neotec-Vision (a partner...
What is heritability?

What is heritability?

Let us start by defining what heritability is. A heritability is defined for each trait in a given population. In general, heritability indicates the proportion of the phenotypic variation that is explained by the genes that an animal has, as denoted by h_B^2=(genetic...
Comprendre les hernies inguinales et scrotales

Comprendre les hernies inguinales et scrotales

INFORMATIONS SUR LA FILIÈRE PORCINE En production porcine, les malformations congénitales dans leur ensemble touchent un pourcentage élevé d’individus estimé entre 0,11% et 4,96% (Straw et al., 2008). Les hernies inguinales et scrotales sont parmi les plus courantes...