Sire Lines Selection
Three pig breeds and specific sire lines of descent have been selected to represent the biggest French database selection with 1,500 sows. AXIOM’s cores are also present abroad over Europe, Canada and Asia.
Duroc AXIOM
Choosing Duroc AXIOM means you are guaranteed:
- High growth rate for greater throughput
- Excellent meat quality
How do we do it?
- The average daily gain is the major factor in our Duroc selection.
- AXIOM measures fifty percent of the candidates for selection at 110kg on intra muscular fat (ultrasound) at 110kg
Label 48
Choosing the Label 48 means you are guaranteed:
• Robust piglets at birth for weaning large numbers of piglets easily
• Finishing pigs with excellent meat quality
How do we do it?
• The choice of a cross-bred boar with 50% Duroc AXIOM genes
• 50% of the candidates for selection at 110kg are measured on intra muscular fat (ultrasound) at 110kg
Piétrain NN AXIOM
Choosing AXIOM Piétrain NN means you are guaranteed:
- low production cost
- strong piglets at birth
- Very muscular offspring
How do we do it?
- AXIOM tests 11,000 boars per year on the feed conversion rate
- The top 5% of boars have a feed conversion rate of 1.85
- selecting based on the rate of lean gain for more than 30 years
Piétrain AXIOM
Choosing AXIOM Piétrain means you are guaranteed:
• low production cost
• most muscular in the market
How do we do it?
• integration of new selection criteria, exclusive to AXIOM: GMQcmj
Ultra Perf / Piétrain Saphir
Choosing Ultra Perf / Piétrain Saphir in AIC means you are guaranteed:
• one of the lowest feed conversion ratio
• high growth rate
• the most cost-effective on the market
How do we do it?
• These boars are the result of a combination of the best Piétrain
• Selective breeding based on important genetic values on CI and growth