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Rank 206Z was brought to SGI from Canada because of his outstanding phenotype and excellent performance combined with the truly remarkable sow productivity records of his dam and other close relatives.
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Rank 206Z has an unusual combination of body length, frame size and body width. He has been housed in a gestation crate since coming off test and is a correctly designed, loose-skeletoned boar that moves with the ease and agility of a cat.
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Rank 206Z is designed much like his very impressive sire, Rank 289X, who has one of the top performance records in Canada. Rank 289X has an EPD of –2.4 mm (-0.095 in) for backfat with a 95% repeatability, an EPD of –4.6 days for growth with an 84% repeatability, and an EBV Index of 149 with a 90% repeatability.
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Both Rank 289X and 206Z are wide-chested boars with good spring of rib and carry their width uniformly front to rear with very impressive, long, level and thick rumps. Teat quality and spacing are excellent on 206Z as well as all of his close relatives.
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Probably even more impressive than the individual excellence of Rank 206Z and his sire are the productivity of Rank 206Z’s dam, her four littermates and his maternal granddam. His dam and her four littermates have the following records:
No. Parites Born Live Weaned 21-day litter Pigs/Sow/Year
Weaning wt.
6 11.2 10.8 185.9 27.2
6 10.5 9.8 160.6 24.9
6 12.8 10.2 154.7 25.0
5 12.2 10.6 175.8 24.0
6 12.3 11.3 172.0 29.2
Rank 206Z’s maternal granddam has a lifetime average of 12.6 born live, 9.5 weaned, 153 lb 21-day litter weight and 23.2 pigs per sow per year for 11 parities and just farrowed 14 live pigs in her 12th litter. Rank 206Z can definitely contribute in the areas of frame size, length of body, leanness and maternal characteristics.
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