Estimating genetic parameters of digital behavior traits and their relationship with production traits in purebred pigs

Table 3 Estimates of heritabilities and standard errors using single-trait models (diagonal) and of phenotypic (upper diagonal) and genetic correlations with standard errors (lower diagonal) using two trait models

	Eating time	Drinking time	Laterally lying time	Sternally lying time	Sitting time	Standing time	Distance (m)	ADG	BF	LD
Eating time	0.57 ± 0.12	0.17	− 0.34	0.04	0.08	0.51	0.18	0.11	0.08	0.09
Drinking time	0.38 ± 0.12	0.38 ± 0.12	0.15	− 0.33	0.01	0.23	0.28	− 0.03	0.08	− 0.13
Laterally lying time	− 0.40 ± 0.16	− 0.33 ± 0.14	0.19 ± 0.07	− 0.82	− 0.26	− 0.47	− 0.06	− 0.11	0.00	− 0.21
Sternally lying time	− 0.41 ± 0.08	− 0.43 ± 0.31	− 0.84 ± 0.04	0.22 ± 0.08	0.12	− 0.07	− 0.36	0.20	0.01	0.29
Sitting time	0.01 ± 0.07	0.26 ± 0.09	− 0.23 ± 0.08	− 0.25 ± 0.19	0.48 ± 0.13	− 0.13	− 0.09	0.15	− 0.03	0.11
Standing time	0.69 ± 0.06	0.62 ± 0.11	− 0.72 ± 0.10	− 0.62 ± 0.08	− 0.48 ± 0.08	0.43 ± 0.11	0.67	− 0.16	0.00	− 0.09
Distance (m)	0.45 ± 0.09	0.44 ± 0.13	− 0.68 ± 0.11	− 0.58 ± 0.09	− 0.05 ± 1.00	0.93 ± 0.03	0.38 ± 0.10	− 0.30	− 0.01	− 0.23
ADG	0.14 ± 0.15	0.32 ± 0.22	0.50 ± 0.18	− 0.10 ± 0.16	0.26 ± 0.16	− 0.56 ± 0.11	− 0.57 ± 0.10	0.38 ± 0.12	0.29	0.52
BF	0.18 ± 0.07	0.18 ± 0.02	0.19 ± 0.08	− 0.04 ± 0.09	0.00 ± 0.08	− 0.17 ± 0.07	− 0.27 ± 0.09	0.56 ± 0.08	0.53 ± 0.11	0.10
LD	0.04 ± 0.09	− 0.07 ± 0.11	0.24 ± 0.12	0.09 ± 0.12	0.03 ± 0.03	− 0.37 ± 0.10	− 0.48 ± 0.14	0.84 ± 0.08	0.26 ± 0.20	0.30 ± 0.10

The behavior traits were averaged over the total recording period. All traits based on time were expressed in min
ADG average daily gain, BF back fat thickness, LD loin depth

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