Benefits and challenges of sugar beet pulp in gestating sow diets
Higher dietary fiber in gestating sow diets may improve nitrogen retention and utilization.
articles about backfat
Effect of sow body weight at first service on body status and performance
Achieving optimal body weight at first service is essential for maximizing the sow’s lifetime performance.
Feeding strategies in primiparous sows on body condition and performance in the first lactation
Differing feeding strategies during rearing may not affect the overall performance of gilts.
Gilt backfat thickness in late pregnancy, mammary development and piglet growth
Do gilts with greater backfat thickness produce more milk?
Hypor Partners with Biotronics to Improve Accuracy and Safety in Ultrasound Scanning
BioQStation is a new product under development that integrates the BioSoft Toolbox II with BioQscan autoprocessing technology and the BioPigLift.
Colostrum yield is influenced by feeding strategy and sow body condition
Sows with high peripartal feeding show highest colostrum yield and better colostrum composition.
Gut digestion of different starch sources affects backfat thickness and growth performance
Pig performance an carcass quality are not affected by the source of starch used in growing diets.
Marking the place where the Renco device must be placed
The goal is to increase the agility of the reading process of the body condition of the sows using the Renco device.
Effects of dietary L-carnitine and DDGS on growth, carcass characteristics, and loin and fat quality of growing-finishing pigs
A dietary supplementation of 50 ppm of L-carnitine improved some productive traits in finishing pigs.
Improving lifetime performance by steering on body weight and backfat thickness in young sows
Modern sows are able to produce over 70 weaned piglets during their productive live.
Varying creep feed duration affects pre-weaning and post-weaning performance and behavior of piglet and sow
Creep feed initiated from day 5 and 10 reduce diarrhea scores in piglets and the estrus interval in sows.
Effect of porcine circovirus type 2 vaccine on postweaning performance and carcass composition
PCV2 vaccination has a large impact on growth rate and on the proportion of pigs going to primary markets, but not on carcass fat depth, loin depth, or percent lean, measurements that are used to determine market value.
Added fat in corn-sorghum based diets: effect on production, carcass and fat quality
Corn can be substituted by sorghum to prevent exceeding softness of fat depots when the energy level of the diet is increased by adding choice white grease.
Phenotypic and Genetic Correlations between Gilt Estrus, Puberty, Growth, Composition, and Structural Conformation Traits with First Litter Reproductive Measures
The objective was to estimate correlations of gilt estrus, puberty, growth, composition, and structural conformation traits with first litter reproductive measures.
Relationships between backfat thickness and reproductive efficiency of sows: A two-year trial involving two commercial herds fixing backfat thickness at breeding
In this study, we established whether controlling backfat thickness at breeding over a long time period can result in optimized reproductive performance in sows.