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Supplementing early weaned piglets with an essential oil blend: the effect on growth performance, intestinal health, and microbiota

A combination of carvacrol, thymol, and cinnamaldehyde in weanling diets may improve growth performance, intestinal health, and gut microbiota in piglets.

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Genetics-ReproductionNews

Denmark: Uncastrated male pigs can be slaughtered

Slaughterhouses have increased openings for this type of pig.

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ManagementAbstract

Short- and long-term effects of birth weight and neonatal care in pigs

Neonatal care treatment may be useful to reduce mortality in low birth weight piglets and could affect carcass fatness and meat quality.

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Markets-EconomicsArticle

Subpopulations (I of III): How to find the profitability gap

Where would you begin to develop new and valuable information about your farm’s profitability (or lack thereof) that you are not monitoring now? Certainly, one of the most important ones is to visualize your data in a new way.

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Genetics-ReproductionAbstract

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.

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Effect of phase feeding, space allowance and mixing on productive performance of grower-finisher pigs

Mixing and reducing SID Lys:NE ratio had a more marked impact on performance than reducing space allowance.

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Genetics-ReproductionArticle

Heat stress affects the sows' reproductive cycle

From their respective academic and on-farm perspectives, Josep Gasa and Josep Casanovas comment on a recent study regarding the effect of heat stress on sows: Which weeks does it affect the farrowing rate the most? What about the weaning-to-first-service interval? Are there differences depending on parity?

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Are gilts valued enough? Gilt development is key to success

To have good gilt performance, producers and vets must value those gilts and invest accordingly. Dr. Clayton Johnson from Carthage Veterinary Services shares some tips about gilt productive development.

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HealthAbstract

Intrauterine growth-restricted piglets can catch up on growth with pGLP-2 microspheres

Injection of pGLP-2 microspheres can be a therapeutic strategy for compensatory growth in intrauterine growth restricted piglets with low birthweights.

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How split-suckling 0, 1, or 3 days affects piglet performance and colostrum intake

Piglet performances were not improved nor impaired when split-suckling was applied during the first day of life. However growth was impaired when litters were intensively split-suckled during first three days of life.

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Facilities-Equipment Press releases

Hypor: A smooth transition from stalls to group housing

How the Hypor Libra* helped Haven Colony make the sow housing transition easy, allowing the animals to produce to their full potential.

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ManagementPress releases

MetaFarms data reveal increasing sow mortality and rising feed costs

MetaFarms Production Index highlights productivity, operations key performance indicators for swine industry.

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NutritionAbstract

Gallic acid supplementation on growth performance, diarrhea, intestinal morphology and immune response in weaned piglets

Dietary supplementation with gallic acid might reduce the incidence of post-weaning diarrhea.

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ManagementNews

Ireland publishes national pig performance report for 2019

For the first time the average pigs born alive per litter surpassed 14 pigs. Live weight and growth rate increased for growing and finishing pigs.

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Comparison of anatomical and gastrointestinal functional development between gilt and sow progeny at birth and weaning

Early development of gilt progeny may be delayed compared with sow progeny and a number of anatomical differences present at birth are also present at weaning.

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Group housing of suckling piglets on post-weaning performance and aggressive behaviour

Weaning is a critical phase in a pig’s life. Group housing of non-littermates before weaning may favour socialisation and hence reduce weaning stress.