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An accurate diagnosis is sometimes difficult because of the common occurrence of mixed infections, the compounding effects of environment and nutrition and the difficulties experienced in isolating and identifying all the possible pathogenic agents involved.

By moving beads stringed in a wire we will record the amount of feed consumed.

US pork industry is enjoying the lowest feed costs in quite some time. A significant number of new hogs to be raised in the U.S. is expected. Will the production arrive ahead of the new slaughter capacity?

We move a plastic ring along the water drainpipe, leaving it at a series of pre-established marks.

Interactions between nutritional strategies and prevalence / severity of GI clinical pictures caused by E. coli after weaning.

The difference in the conversion rate expected within a practical range of average particle sizes between 600 and 1000 microns can be of up to 2-4% between both ends.

The goal is to record the sows' feeding level when fed manually.

The nutritional expected benefit of these products is very high but every precaution must be taken, especially to prevent introduction of PED and spreading of ASF.

Piglets have little difficulty finding the feeder but piglets that were not exposed to creep feed during lactation do not recognize the feed as food when weaned.

We need to know, at all moments, which amount of feed are the sows eating, so we will weigh the feed at least once per week.

Growth models can be a useful tool for decision making, allowing us to consider, simultaneously, multiple variables and showing us trends when facing different alternatives.

The aim is to avoid dehydration during the first days after weaning to improve feed intake.

Feed efficiency as it is measured by the feed conversion ratio (FCR) is basically an engineering concept. There are a lot of misconceptions about feed efficiency and even more surrounding the economics associated with it.

The use of two different feeds for the sows in the farrowing quarters is not always easy at a logistical level.

Given the complexity of the problem caused by mycotoxins in pig production, we must come up with a preventive strategy in order to attain a contamination level that is as low as possible.

This is done by moving from single most likely value to ranges of possible outcomes with an assigned probability