Page 5 of articles about temperature

Pigs exposed to heat stress increase their body temperature and reduce the size of their intestinal villi, thus increasing the loss of endogenous AAs and reducing the abundance of AA transporters in the intestine, as well as apparent and standardized ileal digestibility of AAs.

This article summarizes the main points to beat heat stress in pigs.

The article suggests various environmental and feed program changes and assesses their effect on pig performance and feed cost.

With this aim, micro sprinklers soak periodically the area where we wish the animals to defecate.

This behaviour avoids the submissive animals from having access to water with enough frequency.

Managing the pig’s environment with the goal of heat removal is an increasing need, especially when pens are more crowded.

Current pig market weights are through the roof and at all-time highs for the modern period of meat pig production. We should be noticing a big decline shortly but…

The use of these nests help create two well-differentiated areas: a warmer one for the piglets and a cooler one for the sows.