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- ADG
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- Acuracy of selection
- Ad libitum feeding
- Age at slaughter
- Age at weaning
- Agronomy
- Amino acid
- Anestrous
- Animal welfare
- Antibiotic
- Antibody
- Antimicrobial
- Appetite
- Aquifer
- Arrival date
- Artifical insemination (AI)
- Assets, current
- Assets, fixed
- Atrophied piglets
- Aujeszky's disease
- Availability of breeding stock
- Availability of nutrients
- Average
- Average daily gain
- Average, weighted
- Back Pressure Test
- Backcross
- Backfat
- Baconer
- Balanced diet
- Bandwidth
- Barrow
- Basal metabolism
- Belly
- Biosecurity program
- Birth litter
- Birth weight
- Blastocyst
- Boar taint
- Boar, breeding
- Boar, replacement
- Boar, unworked
- Boar, vasectomised
- Boar, working
- Boston butt
- Breeder
- Breeding female day
- Breeding herd
- Breeding program goals
- Breeding value
- CFM
- Calcium (CA)
- Carcass
- Carcass index
- Carcass merit
- Carcass yield
- Carrier
- Case ready
- Casualty slaughter
- Cecum
- Central test
- Chromosome
- Clinical signs
- Cold storage
- Colibacillosis
- Collateral relatives
- Colon
- Commerical Herd
- Conceive
- Conception
- Conception rate
- Condemnation
- Condition scoring
- Congenital
- Congenital defect
- Conservation plan
- Consumption
- Contemporary group
- Contract production
- Controlled feeding
- Conventional buildings
- Corpus albicantia
- Corpus leuteum
- Correlated genetic response
- Correlation
- Creep feed
- Criss-cross
- Critical temperature, maximum
- Critical temperature, minimum
- Cross Foster
- Crossbred
- Crossbreeding
- Crude Protein
- Cull
- Cull rate
- Culling percentage, females
- Culling percentage, sows
- Cut-out
- Cutter
- Cycle
- Cytoplasm
- Cytoplasmic droplet
- DNA
- Daily live weight gain
- Dam
- Dam line
- Days to market
- Death percentage, females
- Death percentage, sows
- Demand
- Depopulation/Repopulation
- Deviation
- Diamond skin disease
- Didi boar
- Diet
- Differential
- Digestibility
- Dominance
- Double mating
- Down time
- Dressing percentage
- Dry matter
- Duodenum
- EDEMA disease
- ELISA
- Economic value
- Effluent
- Emaciated
- Embryo
- Empty days
- Endemic
- Endogenous prostaglandins
- Energy-digestible
- Energy-metabolized
- Energy-net
- Enteritis
- Entry date
- Entry date (200-d-old rule)
- Entry date (25-d arrival rule)
- Environment
- Enzootic pneumonia
- Estimated breeding value (EBV)
- Estradiol
- Estrous
- Estrous Cycle
- Estrus
- Event date
- Exogenous prostaglandins
- Expected progeny difference (EPD)
- Exposure
- F1
- F2 generation
- FPM
- Farrow
- Farrow to finish operation
- Farrowing
- Farrowing crate
- Farrowing date
- Farrowing index
- Farrowing interval
- Farrowing rate
- Farrowing rate, adjusted
- Farrowing, failure
- Feed
- Feed consumed/yr-total
- Feed conversion ratio
- Feed efficiency
- Feed intake/d
- Feed wastage
- Feeder pig
- Feeder pig operation
- Female herd
- Female herd turnover rate percentage
- Female, breeding
- Female-to-boar ratio
- Fetus
- Finish
- Finisher
- Finishing operation
- First cross (F1 or F1 cross)
- First litter sow
- Fixed cross
- Flat deck
- Floor feed
- Follicles
- Fostering
- Full feeding
- Full siblings
- Gastroenteritis
- Gene
- Generation interval
- Genetic correlation
- Genetic lag
- Genetic level
- Genetic marker
- Genetic status
- Genotype
- Genotype-environment interaction
- Gestation length
- Gilt
- Gilt pool
- Gilt replacement rate percentage
- Glasser's disease
- Grandparent
- Greasy pig disease
- Great-grandparent
- Grower pig
- Growth promoters
- Growth rate
- Haemophilus Pneumonia
- Half-siblings
- Half-sibs
- Half-sibs, maternal
- Half-sibs, paternal
- Ham
- Hand breeding
- Hand mating
- Heat period
- Heavy hogs
- Hedging gain or loss
- Herd size, female
- Herd size, sow
- Heredity
- Heritability
- Heterosis
- Heterzygous
- Hog
- Homozygous
- Hoop structure
- Hormones
- Hybrid vigor
- Hysterectomy
- Ileum
- Immunity
- Immunization
- Inbreeding
- Independent culling levels
- Indexing
- Induction of farrowing
- Insemination
- Intact pigs
- Intensity of selection
- Interference level
- Isowean
- Jejunem
- Joule (J)
- Kcal
- Killing-out percentage
- Kilocalorie
- Kilogram
- Labor and fringe benefits
- Lactating
- Lactation
- Lactation length
- Lactogenic Immunity
- Lagoon
- Lairage
- Lairage death
- Late foster sow
- Leak
- Leaving date
- Leucine
- Libido
- Line breeding
- Linecross
- Linoleic acid
- Litter
- Litter birth weight
- Litter scatter graph
- Litter weaning weight
- Litter weight, adjusted 21-d (LWT)
- Litters farrowed per crate per year
- Litters per mated female per year
- Litters pre female per year
- Live births per female per year
- Live births per sow per year
- Live birthweight, average
- Live weight
- Live-births/litter
- Live-born piglets
- Locus
- Loin
- Loin muscle area
- Losses
- Losses, causes post-weaning
- Losses, causes preweaning
- Luteinization
- Luteinizing hormone (LH)
- Lysine
- MD
- MEW
- MMA
- MMEW
- Maiden gilt
- Maintenance ration
- Marbling
- Margin
- Marker assisted selection
- Market hogs
- Market weight, average
- Marketable pork produced/yr
- Mated female death loss percentage
- Mated female-to-service boar ration
- Mated femaled
- Mating
- Mean
- Meat breeds
- Megajoule (MJ)
- Mixed pigs
- Monograstric
- Morbidity
- Mortality (post-weaning)
- Mortality (preweaning)
- Mortality rate
- Mother breeds
- Motility
- Multi-site
- Multiplier herd
- Mummification
- Mummified pigs
- Mystery swine disease
- NRC
- Negative pressure
- Neutral pressure
- Niche pork production
- Nonadditive gene effects
- Nonproductive sow days
- Not in pig (NIP)
- Nucleus herd
- Number born alive
- Number of contemporaries
- Nursemaid sow
- Nursery
- Nursery pigs
- Nursery, cold
- Nursery, hot
- Nursery, pre
- Nursing pig
- Nutrient
- OCD
- Oestrus (UK)
- Offset
- Opportunity cost
- Osmotic pressure
- Outcrossing
- Oviduct
- Ovulation
- Oxytocin
- PAR
- PCR
- PH
- PIA
- PMWS
- PPV
- PQA
- PRCV
- PRRSV
- PRV
- PSE
- PSS
- PWM
- Parity
- Parity 0
- Partial Depopulation
- Parturition
- Pasture system
- Pathogen
- Pedigree
- Pen mating
- Per capita consumption
- Performance data
- Performance testing
- Perineum
- Phase-contrast microscope
- Phenotype
- Phenotypic correlation
- Picnic
- Pig
- Pig density
- Pig flow
- Piglet
- Pigs born live/female
- Pigs sold/yr
- Pigs weaned per farrowing crate per yr
- Pigs weaned per female per yr
- Pigs weaned per sow per yr
- Pigs weaned per sow-place per yr
- Plasma
- Pork
- Porker
- Positive pressure
- Post-weaning death loss percentage
- Post-weaning loss
- Pounds of lean pork per day of age
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy rate, 40-d
- Premature farrowing
- Preweaning death loss percentage
- Preweaning loss
- Primary SPF
- Production
- Profitability
- Progeny testing
- Prostaglandin-F2α
- Proximate analysis
- Purebred
- Qualitative traits
- Quantitative traits
- RFLP
- RPM
- Random mating
- Rate of genetic improvement
- Ration
- Recessive gene
- Reference sire
- Regression
- Rent and lease
- Repair and maintenance
- Repeat breeder
- Replacement gilt
- Replacement rate percentage
- Restricted feeding
- Return to estrus
- Ridgling
- Rotational cross
- SEW
- SMEDI
- SPF
- Salt poisoning
- Savage
- Scours
- Seasonal infertility
- Seed stock
- Segregated early weaning
- Selection
- Selection differential
- Selection index
- Semen
- Service
- Service, date of
- Service, early return to
- Service, effective
- Service, irregular return to
- Service, normal or regular return to
- Service, period
- Service, repeat
- Service, retun to
- Set point
- Sharps container
- Shoat
- Sibs
- Sire line
- Sirloin
- Slaughter
- Slaughter weight
- Slaughterhouse
- Sludge
- Sow
- Sow death loss
- Sow inventory
- Sow-to-boar ratio
- Sow-to-gilt ratio
- Sows weaned/yr
- Spermatogensis
- Spermatogonia
- Split suckle
- Split wean
- Stage
- Stage of production
- Standing reflex
- Starter ration
- Static pressure
- Stillborn
- Stillborn percentage
- Store pig
- Strep, suis
- Stress
- Substandard pig
- Suckling pig
- Supplies
- Supply
- Swine fever
- TGE
- Tag
- Target
- Taxes
- Tenderloin
- Tenth rib backfat
- Terminal sires
- Testing, performance
- Thermal Buoyancy
- Thin
- Three-site production
- Tilth
- Total births/litter
- Total female inventory
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