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Tryptophan in swine nutrition

Tryptophan has positive effects on voluntary feed intake. This greater feed intake leads to increased growth performance and improved feed conversion ratio in piglets, and to lower body weight losses in sows during lactation.

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Ileal digestibility and endogenous flow of minerals and amino acids: responses to dietary phytic acid in piglets

Dietary phytic acid content may affect mineral digestibility and availability in piglets

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Most countries post increases in production costs

An analysis of how international pig production costs suffered from 2008 record feed grain prices has been produced by InterPig.

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Decreasing dietary particle size of lupins increases apparent ileal amino acid digestibility and alters fermentation characteristics in the gastrointestinal tract of pigs

Particle size after grinding may be a critic factor for lupin AA digestibility in growing pigs

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Effect of supplementing zinc oxide and biotin with or without carbadox on nursery pig performance

D-biotin supplementation of piglet diets may improve growth performance in early weaned piglets

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Delacon Performing Nature Symposium in Crete/Greece

The Performing Nature Symposium was successfully held last week on the Greece island Crete, where Delacon gathered 250 people from more than 25 countries. In these two days 18 speakers held lectures on the following topics: Trends in animal production and nutrition, Immunity and Environment.

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United Kingdom - Code of Practice for Salmonella control

The Code brings together in one document advice that was previously dispersed in three codes and the guidance it contains has been revised to reflect best practice and recent legislative developments.

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Effect of incremental levels of red blood cells on growth performance and carcass traits of finishing pigs

More than 2% of red blood cells inclusion in finishing diets may reduce growth performance in pigs

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The effect of feeding crude glycerol on growth performance and nutrient digestibility in weaned pigs

The substitution of wheat by crude glycerol (8%) in piglet diets may improves growth performance

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Feed management after weaning

Without a doubt weaning is the most stressful process suffered by a pig, or at least it is up until that moment in its life.

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VIV Europe 2010 back to its roots in Utrecht

VIV Europe 2010 will take place from April 20 - 22, 2010 in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht, The Netherlands. The international exhibition on innovative animal husbandry aims to be the ultimate meeting place for international top decision makers in the feed to meat industry. This year two special themes with related conferences will be presented at the exhibition, Eggs! and Meat Safety. Up to 400 companies from 32 different countries have already booked a stand, covering about 75 % of the total exhibition floor.

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Feeding excess crude protein: effects on growth performance and carcass traits of finishing pigs

Dietary crude protein in finishing diets may be reduced until 12% without affecting pig performance and carcass yield

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EU - The Commission will transmit to the Council a proposal to authorise a GM maize

The Commission will transmit to the Council a proposal to authorise genetically modified (GM) maize after Member States representatives were not able to endorse it during a meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH).

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