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Mastering Swine Evaluation and Market Hog Traits

This guide delves into the crucial traits of market hogs, including muscle, leanness, structural correctness, and balance. Learn to identify and evaluate these traits, locate areas of muscle and finish, diagnose structural issues, and understand the significance of balance in swine assessment. Dive into muscle areas like loin and ham, observe leanness over the loin edge and at the ham, and assess structural factors like body length, top levelness, bone substance, and feet and leg soundness. Gain insights into designing a well-proportioned and complete market hog model, while understanding breed differences like Pietrians. Enhance your swine evaluation skills with hands-on knowledge and key takeaways.

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Mastering Swine Evaluation and Market Hog Traits

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  1. Market Swine Evaluation

  2. Objectives: • You will be able to list the traits involved in evaluating market hogs. • You will be able to identify the areas of importance in terms of muscle, and locate them on a hog. • You will be able to determine finish on an hog, and indicate areas where finish may be observed.

  3. Objectives Continued: • You will be able to determine the importance of structural correctness, and be able to diagnose problems with structure • You will be able to describe the importance of balance in swine evaluation. • You will also develop a model depicting the ideal market hog.

  4. Swine Evaluation Traits • Muscle • Leanness • Structural Correctness • Balance • Growth Potential • Volume

  5. Muscle: • Loin • Ham • Ideally you want a groove down the top and a dimple before the tail head.

  6. Leanness • Over loin edge • Jowl • Observe shoulder blade movement when walking • At the lower third of the ham.

  7. Structural Correctness • Length of body • Levelness of top • Substance of bone • Soundness of feet and legs

  8. Balance • Design • Proportion • Completeness Ex. Pietrians are a breed that are not extremely well balanced as they may be overly muscled.

  9. Summary • We identified the traits that are important in market swine evaluation. • We located areas on the market hog in which we could observe muscle. • We identified areas where finish could be observed. • We described the importance of balance. • Finally, we built the ideal market hog.

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