Dynamic data of body weight and feed intake in fattening pigs, and the determination of energetic allocation factors using a dynamic linear model

Abstract

A dataset of 100 pigs, from the Piétrain NN Français line raised at the AXIOM boar testing station in 2020, was used. The farm was equipped with an automatic feeding system, recording individual weight and feed intake at each visit. We used a dynamic linear regression model to characterise the evolution of the energetic allocation factor (α_t) which represents the link between the cumulative net energy available (estimated from feed intake) and cumulative weight gain during the fattening period. The data were imported using an R script to estimate the allocation factor for a given animal. The dataset and R script are useful resources to study feed intake, growth dynamics and the relationship between these two variables.