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Title Sow Dimensions 2025
License CC BY-NC-SA
Teagasc Department Pig Development
Teagasc Programme Animal and Grassland
Description Measurements of multi-sparious pre-farrowing sows from four Irish pig farms
Language English
Principal Investigator (PI) Emma Baxter
Principal Investigator (PI) email emma.baxter@sruc.ac.uk
Principal Investigator (PI) ORCID 0000 0005 0671 8985
Data creator(s)
  1. Alan Foley
Geographic coverage Cork, Ireland
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.82253/cg25-ht89
Citation Foley. A, Boyle. L, O'Driscoll. K, Jessiman. L, Baxter. E, (2026) Sow body measurements [dataset]. Teagasc Open Data Platform.
Rights notes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en
Project funders Walsh Scholar Programme
Related resources
  1. O'Connell, M.K., Lynch, P.B., Bertholot, S., Verlait, F. and Lawlor, P.G. (2007) ‘Measuring changes in physical size and predicting weight of sows during gestation’, Animal, 1(9), pp. 1335–1343. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731107000559.
Provenance information The data frame was generated within Rstudio. Data from 2005 and the current study were merged into a single data frame containing; ID, farm, parity, length, height, depth, width, entry weight, and litter size.
Time of data collection May-October 2025