Disease resilience, defined as an animal's ability to maintain productive performance in the
face of infection, provides opportunities to manage the polymicrobial challenge common in …

Considering the increasing challenges imposed by climate change and the need to improve
animal welfare, breeding more resilient animals capable of better coping with environmental …

Background Increasing resilience is a priority in modern pig breeding. Recent research
shows that general resilience can be quantified via variability in longitudinal data. The …

Resilient cows are minimally affected in their functioning by disturbances, and if affected,
they quickly recover. Previously, the variance and autocorrelation of daily deviations from a …

Recently, automatic feeders have become popular for collecting daily feed intake data in the
pig industry, making it possible to evaluate genetic effects on feed efficiency and resilience …

Selective breeding for improved animal resilience is becoming critical to increase the
sustainability of production systems. Despite the existence of a genetic component for …

Empirical estimates of the accuracy of estimates of breeding values (EBV) can be obtained
by cross‐validation. Leave‐one‐out cross‐validation (LOOCV) is an extreme case of k‐fold …

Background Disease resilience, which is the ability of an animal to maintain performance
under disease, is important for pigs in commercial herds, where they are exposed to various …

Metabolites in plasma of healthy nursery pigs were quantified using nuclear magnetic
resonance. Heritabilities of metabolite concentration were estimated along with their …

Background Previous research showed that deviations in longitudinal data are heritable and
can be used as a proxy for pigs' general resilience. However, only a few studies investigated …