Large White
The Large White is a globally recognized maternal breed, celebrated for its prolificacy and adaptability. It forms the backbone of many commercial breeding programs due to its robust constitution and excellent reproductive traits.
Innovative selection of maternal qualities (genomic)
Kg meat produced kg / sow / year
High sanitary status
KEY TRAITS
DATA
- 1600 GGP sows in selection LW
- Genomic selection program in collaboration with IFIP and INRA
- Results of mothers of boars present in AIC
| LW by Nucléus | |
|---|---|
| Average parity | 3,8 |
| Born alive | 17,5 |
| Weaned | 14,8 |
Results of Large White gilts By Nucléus :
- > 1,4 kg birth weight of piglets
- > 16 good teats
- > 3230 kg live weight produced/sow/year
- > 2.29 FCR (18-105 kg)
Why choose the breed Large-White by Nucléus as the gilt for the renewing of your farm ?
Large-White pig is the one of the pig breeds the most solicited and exported. It’s because of many advantages : an excellent prolificity, a great rate of growth, optimal Global FCR and an excellent meat quality…Large White Sow and its piglets also have a high resistance and adaptability that make it a genetic type that can be exploited under many rearing conditions. This is ideal for the good growth of a healthy and sustainable pig farm. Let’s go through some of its benefits in detail.
Which are the selection criteria of a maternal line of Large-White breed ?
Where carcass criteria are the main factor in a male line , selection in female line is conditioned almost equally by maternal qualities (number of teats, piglets born alive, weaned piglets) and food efficiency (ADG, food conversion rate, etc).
Production Performances of the Large White Gilt by Nucléus – from OGAL Farms
The gilt Large-White by Nucléus has the following characteristics : 2.55 of Global FCR, 27,2 pigs produced/sow/year, 13 piglets weaned/litter.
Large-White gilt : the numerical productivity, a guarantee of security
A large quantity of meat produced is necessarily one of the main performance issues of a pig farm. With the gilt Large-White by Nucléus, this is 3230 kg live weight produced/sow/year.
At Ogal Farms, we select our female lines (as the landrace breed) based on their maternal and production capacities.
Litters with superior quality
The Large-white gilt gives robust, heavy and homogeneous piglets. The quality of the produced piglet is indisputable and this is the major asset of this maternal line.
