초음파 기술은 비파괴적이며 실시간으로 체조성을 측정할 수 있는 도구로서, 돼지의 유전 개량과 도체 평가에 필수적인 수단으로 자리 잡았다. 본 총설에서는 A-모드와 B-모드 초음파의 발전 과정, 활용 현황, 그리고 향후 전망을 종합적으로 고찰하였다. 초기의 A-모드 초음파는 등지방 두께를 선형적으로 측정하는 단순한 구조였으나, B-모드는 이차원 영상으로 근육 단면적과 근내지방 함량을 보다 정확하게 추정할 수 있었다. 그러나 장비 간 측정값의 불일치, 조사자(기술자) 의존성, 표준화된 교정체계의 부재 등은 기관 간 데이터 비교를 어렵게 하였다. 최근에는 영상 분석 기술과 수학적 보정모델, 디지털 데이터 관리기법이 발전하면서 재현성과 정확도가 향상되었고, 초음파 형질을 유전체 선택과 결합함으로써 도체능력 예측력이 크게 개선되었다. 또한 National Swine Improvement Federation (NSIF) 주도의 표준화 연구와 A·B 모드 장비 간 호환성 검증 연구가 이루어지면서 데이터 통합 기반이 마련되고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 장비 교정의 국제적 통일성과 기술자 숙련도 향상은 여전히 주요 과제로 남아 있다. 향후에는 통합 알고리즘의 개발, 대규모 데이터베이스 구축, 그리고 초음파 기반 도체 품질 평가의 국제적 기준 확립이 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

This study was conducted to find out the environmental, service sire and genetic effects for reproductive trait in certain purebred of pigs on Landrace and Yorkshire, and to suggest selection indicator which is to improve genetic capability on reproductive traits. There are five traits used on this analysis which are total number of born (NBT), number of born alive (NBA), piglets weight within litter (LW), average of birth weight on piglets within litter (ABW) and variation of birth weight on piglets within litter (VBW). With these data, the mixed model was established using 10,342 records collected from 2,527 sows of Landrace and 13,817 records collected from sows of 3,056 Yorkshire breeds and the variation of random effects and the genetic parameter were estimated by the REML method including service sire effects, permanent environmental effects and sow genetic effects. Due to characteristics of closed nucleus herd for using data on this study, given that it has been isolated breeding for about 19 years that progressed over 16 generations, genetic analysis was performed on all of these data and partial data of the current genetic group in which animals were born after 2011. The effects of service sire were estimated to be less than about 8% of total variation in all traits considered in the analysis. Permanent environmental effects were estimated about 2~14% of total variation in all traits considered. The heritability, which is the ratio of genetic variance among the total variance, was estimated to be 20~35% for LW and ABW in Landrace and Yorkshire, while it was about 10~14% for NBT. The genetic correlations between NBT and LW were 62~74% and between NBT and ABW were –28~-7%. Therefore, indirect selection for improving litter size could be possible with considering LW. Whereas, the genetic effect of the service sire effects for litter traits would be trivial.

This study was carried out to prepare for the basic data to properly treat the swine manure targeting 19 pig farms in Daejung-eup in Jeju Island. Swine breeding facility can be classified largely as scraper piggery, slurry piggery and recirculating piggery based on their types. Generation flux source unit and generated source unit for each swine breeding facility have been calculated. The average generated flux source unit for the scrapper piggery was 4.57 L/d, for the slurry piggery 3.27 L/d, and for the recirculating type 2.57 L/d. The generation source units for the scraper piggery were 37,796.3 mg/L of BOD5, 25,853.0 mg/L of CODMn, 39,843.8 mg/L of SS, 28,390.5 mg/L of T-N, and 890.1 mg/L of T-P; for the slurry piggery 45,974.2 mg/L of BOD5, 29,582.4 mg/L of CODMn, 69,190.6 mg/L of SS, 29,210.4 mg/L of T-N, and 1,370.6 mg/ L of T-P; and for the recirculating piggery 32,953.9 mg/L of BOD5, 21,698.4 mg/L of CODMn, 46,816.5 mg/L of SS, 19,464.3 mg/L of T-N, and 979.2 mg/L of T-P. In summary, the average generation flux source unit of the swine manure from 19 pig farms of Daejung-eup in Jeju Island was 3.47 L/d, and the average generation source unit of the manure was 38,908.1 mg/L of BOD5, 25,711.3 mg/L of CODMn, 51,950.3 mg/L of SS, 25,688.4 mg/L of T-N, and 1,080.0 mg/L of T-P.