PREDICTION OF BODY WEIGHT OF PIGS FROM BODY MEASUREMENTS

Abstract

An attempt was made to develop a formula to estimate the body weight (W) of Large White Yorkshire piglets aged between three to six months using body length (L) and chest girth (G) data. A satisfactory relation was obtained when the chest girth data alone was used. It was found that the relation W = 10-5 x 9.9 x G3 can be used to predict the body weight with less than 7 per cent of error.