Feeding 20% soybean hulls to grower-finisher pigs with or without enzyme supplementation
High inclusion of soybean hulls may be used in finishing diets without without a negative impact on performance.
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Energy supplementation to neonatal piglets of low birth weight
Energy supplementation to neonatal piglets of low birth weight may reduce piglet mortality.
China continued dominating the global oilseeds market
Chinese total soybean imports hit another record at 78.35 million tons, absorbing 60 percent of total world exports.
Using phytogenic products in swine nutrition
The immunomodulatory effect —particularly anti-inflammatory— of phytogenic products added to the diet seems to play a crucial role in addressing intestinal clinical pictures in pigs.
Iron deficiency and anemia in piglets and the effect of iron status at weaning on post-weaning performance
Consumption of nursery starter feeds containing high concentrations of ZnO is associated with post-weaning anemia.
The effect of feeding a diet formulated for developing gilts on lameness indicators and carcass traits
A proper feed restriction during rearing period may be a successful strategy to reduce lameness in gilts.
Rabobank: EU grains-to-pork value chains must leverage country strengths
Over the past 30 years, the European value chain—spanning from grains & oilseeds (G&O) via feed to pork—has developed into three main business models: specialisation, semi-integration and full integration.
Choosing for not-genetically modified soy results in higher costs for livestock
Mid-term (3 to 5 years) additional costs for the Dutch animal husbandry due to more expensive non-GM soy and alternative protein sources, are estimated at €60 to €100m per year, of which about 80% for the poultry sector.
Food and feed safety: EU commits to €32.5 million to support EU Reference Laboratories
The European Commission has awarded a total of €32.5 million, for the years 2016 and 2017, to support the 43 EU Reference Laboratories (EU-RLs) designated for food and feed safety, as well as animal health.
Modest growth in the EU compound feed production in 2015
In spite of the economic incentive to pig farmers to use their own cereals, industrial pig feed production remained stable in 2015.
Variability in feed manufacture, a factor to be considered in the efficiency of fattening
Variability of feed ingredients is analysed, as well as its consequences on consumption and lean tissue growth in fattening pigs.
Behaviour of fattening pigs fed with liquid feed and dry feed
Pigs performed equivalent in both systems, but from an animal welfare view we recommend dry feed to growing pigs.
European Union: Progress on two proposals considered as a package on "Animal medicines"
The Presidency reported to the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on the progress achieved during the second half of 2015 on two proposals considered as a package on 'Animal medicines'.
Need for developing country to strengthen quality control systems in feed analysis laboratories
According to Harinder Makkar of FAO who coordinated this study, “the results illustrate higher need for developing country feed analysis laboratories to improve the quality of data being generated.”
EFSA cannot conclude on the safety of ethoxyquin as a feed additive for any target animals
No conclusion on potential safe levels for other poultry, pigs, ruminants, fish and cats is possible.
Differential diagnosis of post-weaning diarrhoea in pigs
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.