Effect of lactation feed intake and creep feeding on sow and piglet performance
Increasing total feed intake of sows during lactation may improve litter gain and sow productivity
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The finance crisis: Grain prices will rise as production falls off
Experts expect price increases in second half of 2009 with wheat in the Paris exchange rising to 200 €/t. Recommendations include forward selling when prices high.
Rice protein concentrate partially replaces dried whey in the diet for early-weaned piglets and improves their growth performance
The use of rice protein concentrate in weanling diets may reduce feed costs and improve growth performance in piglets
Effect of common antinutritive factors and fibrous feedstuffs in pig diets on amino acid digestibilities with special emphasis on threonine
Cereal hemicellulose fibre reduces apparent ileal digestibility of amino acids by increasing endogenous losses
Effects of dietary protein supply, weaning age and experimental enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection on newly weaned pigs: performance
Increasing weaning age and decreasing dietary protein level may help to minimise the effects of post-weaning colibacillocis on performance
Fatty acids and sows
Although many studies have shown that addition of fat to sow diets during late gestation can improve piglet status at birth and growth performance before weaning, less attention has been placed on the type of fatty acid in the diet and how specific fatty acids might improve piglet growth and survival.
Alimentation of replacement sows
The entrance of gilts to the production system and the strategies followed up to the first lactation is of vital importance for the economic cost-effectiveness of sows since these strategies have a direct effect on the subsequent productivity and longevity
Hydrolyzed of intestinal mucosa of swine in substitution to blood plasma in diets of pigs from 21 to 49 days
The replacement of animal plasma by swine hydrolyzed intestinal mucosa in weanling diets does not reduce piglet performance and gastrointestinal development
Dietary starch sources affect net portal appearance of amino acids and glucose in growing pigs
Amino acid and glucose upload in blood may be affected by the dietary starch source
Evaluating the effects of supplemental B vitamins in practical swine diets during the starter and grower-finisher periods-A regional study
The B vitamin levels recommended in NRC (1998) still fits with the requirements of the recent genetic improved pigs
Digestion of carbohydrates and utilization of energy in sows fed diets with contrasting levels and physicochemical properties of dietary fibre
Feeding sows with diets containing high dietary fibre content may be a successful strategy to reduce stress during gestation
Fermented liquid feed for pigs
Traditionally, liquid feeding systems developed in areas where liquid co-products from the human food industry were abundant and cheap
Feeder adjustment - how to get barn workers involved in the daily adjustment process
The research data suggests that feeders designed for ad libitum feed access with diets in the mash form should have approximately 40% of the feeder pan covered with feed.
Effect of a Bacillus-based direct-fed microbial feed supplement on growth performance and pen cleaning characteristics of growing-finishing pigs
Bacillus supplemented diets may improve pig performance during the grower-finisher phase and reduce the time spent to pen cleaning
Effect of dietary supplementation of different oils during the first or second half of pregnancy on the glucose tolerance of the sow
Glucose curve characteristics and insulin sensivity may affect litter performance and sow productivity
Dietary organic and inorganic trace mineral levels, effects on sow reproductive performances and daily mineral intakes over six parities
Feeding sows organic trace minerals may improve sow reproductive performance