Pigs to Pork
MANAGEMENT
Cooperative Extension Service PURDUE UNIVERSITY Lafayette, Indiana
Indiana station boar testing program
AS-399 July, 1972
K. J. Drewry, Animal Sciences Department
The Indiana Station Boar Testing Program offers a service to Indiana swine breeders in which central station performance records on boar pigs may be obtained under standarized conditions. The pigs will be evaluated at the Indiana Evaluation Station at Purdue Universt
pigs must be from litters of eight or more pigs at farrowing and have 12 or more prominent, well-spaced nipples. Boars from inherited defects, or cryptorchid (ridgling) r pigs will be individually ter and pig number.
In the program, boars are measured fo growth rate, feed efficiency, backfat probed loineye area and visual appraisal, and they are sold at public auction if they meet sales standards.
This program assists the Indiana Swine Industry by serving as a partial progeny test for the sire of a test group; acting as a "show window" for the breeder's herd; helping to merchandise desirable breeding stock; and identifying genetically superior seed stock herds for purebred and commercial swine producers. It will also assist the breeder in selection of replacement breeding stock. It also serves to supplement records on progeny from the same herd sire obtained through the Indiana On-Farm Boar Testing Program, the Indiana Swine Progeny Testing Program for market animals and Swine Breed Association programs.
Any swine breeder in Indiana may participate in the Boar Testing if he can meet the eligibility requirements.
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible, the sow must be owned by an Indiana breeder at farrowing. Boar
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Fall Test shall include those boars farrowed in July and August. These boars are delivered to the station for start on test between September 1 and November 1. Sales following completion of the test will be held in January and February.
Spring Test shall include those pigs farrowed in January and February. These pigs are delivered to the station for start on test between March 1 and May 1. Sales following completion of the test will be held in July and August.
APPLICATION
Application forms for consignment of test-groups to upcoming Spring or Fall tests shall be distributed each year in early January and early July.
The completed application and entry fee shall be returned by February 15 for the Spring test and by August 15 for the Fall test.
Entry Fee: A deposit fee of $100 per pen of 5 boars and $40 per pen of two boars