Is body condition the right tool to adjust feeding in pregnant sows?
Energy intake based on body condition differs greatly from the energy adult sows require. Moreover, the NRC clearly overestimates the sows' maintenance requirements.
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Strategies to control piglet weight variability in the nursery (2/2): Feeding and feeding troughs
Various strategies are discussed: offering up to 3 different types of feed, budget feeding, density of piglets per feeder space, ...
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23-Mar-20163tres3-espanaCV means coefficient of variation, a measure of dispersion. Now the explanation has been added to the text. Thank you!
Strategies to control piglet weight variability in the nursery (1/2): farrowing, segregation of animals, environmental comfort
Although dispersion in the farrowing quarters is decisive in the final dispersion, we can take steps to correct some of this dispersion in the nursery.
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Description of the production conditions of the pig fattening in Spain
Characteristics of the installations, genetics, medications, feeding, etc. of Spanish feedlots based on data of 452 farms that pertain to nine of the 25 biggest pig integration companies in the country.
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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
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04-Jul-2014n.bojarovskaI read a lot of Piglog 105, and I was interested when it's best to do the measurement (weight) that would be ideal value of first and second dorsal measurement bacon, MLD and% meat.
If a 100 kg gilts, in which values should be discarded (as bacon mm, MLD,% meat) which values are bad?
I apologize for my English,
If a 100 kg gilts, in which values should be discarded (as bacon mm, MLD,% meat) which values are bad?
I apologize for my English,
