Relevance. Modern technology for the production of pig farming products on an industrial basis requires the analysis of many issues related not only to feeding and management of animals in new conditions but also to their breeding [1, 3]. The basis of modern pig breeding is innovation in pork production technology. At the moment, a lot of efforts are being made for transfer to a new innovative development in the area of pig breeding, the fundamental path of which should be modern genetics [4, 6]. The main condition for pedigree pig breeding is the constant improvement of pig breeds and the development of competitive hybrids by modelling and predicting the breeding process using the index assessment of animals by their productivity [2, 5, 8].
Today, the structure of commercial pig breeding based on the latest innovative technologies and the best world achievements presupposes the use of breeds not only with improved meat qualities but also with stabilized reproductive indicators. The efficiency of pig breeding is associated with the arrangement of the whole herd reproduction, which, in turn, includes a system for the use of brood boars and breeding sows. The most important indicator of sows productivity is their reproductive qualities [7, 9, 11, 15]. Piglet rearing is an important condition for increasing the profitability of pig breeding, therefore, it is deemed as an important link in the technological chain of reproduction of a reproductive herd. Prolificacy in pork production is of paramount importance, but the improvement of this indicator is a long and difficult process since it is hereditarily lowly conditioned, moreover, the boar, which is the carrier of heredity, does not have its phenotypic expression. Prolificacy and milk yielding capacity of sows are the main indicators of their productivity, the level of efficiency of use in reproduction. The success of the industry will be ensured when more than 25 commercial piglets are obtained annually from a sow [4, 5, 16, 17].