Pig
Canola meal diets may support sow, piglet performance
Canola meal may provide the main dietary protein for gestating and lactating sows while maintaining sow and piglet weight gain and development, say researchers.
- Piglet gut health and cow milk yields on Chr. Hansen’s radar
- Plasma as alternative to antibiotics in piglet diets
- Formulating livestock diets without antibiotics: the cost issues
- Pig gut health: Understanding the role of threonine
- Low net energy diets may result in lower feed costs while supporting swine production
- Evaluating the importance of antioxidants in feed
- Improving piglet gut health with nutrition
- Histidine research may help lower cost of pig diets
Pig
Pigs digest fiber efficiently even at high inclusion rates
Researchers at the University of Illinois have been examining the contribution high-fiber feed ingredients make to the energy content of swine diets.
Can better sow nutrition lead to better progeny?
Novus has been exploring the role of trace minerals in maternal nutrition through the use of epigenetics on development of piglets.
Pig nutrition welfare is gaining ground in EU
New requirements mandate that sows and gilts must be fed diets rich in fiber and contain sufficient energy to meet their needs.
Using inulin in pig and poultry feeds
Inulin is an oligosaccharide that can be used as a functional fiber in diets for poultry and pigs.
What is the maximum weight a sow can wean?
Sows can wean litter weights of over 115 kg at 28 days of age and pigs with low birth weights can have feed efficiency ratios under 2.4 during the finishing
There is so much more to know about sows
Commonly, the number of pigs weaned per sow per year (PWSY) is used as a benchmarking measurement to compare the productivity of breeding herds
Top 5 things to do when you see pigs with diarrhoea
These diseases can drastically affect profitability due to reduced weight gain and feed efficiency, as well as acute mortality, with up to 100 percent
A tail-biting contingency plan for your herd
Compassion in World Farming provides a tail-biting contingency plan for all pig producers wanting to reduce the incidences of tail-biting on-farm and improve
What do wheat co-products have to offer swine diets?
US wheat co-products may have less variation by mill than those in other countries, and the co-product red dog may provide a greater nutritional value
Study shows benefit of alternative feed ingredient for use in swine diets
The co-product flaxseed meal may offer an alternative energy and protein ingredient for use in the diets of growing pigs, say researchers.
Drive nursery piglets' feed intake from within
Pig’s response to its first dry feed sets the pace for strong finishing performance.
Spray-dried plasma may improve piglet performance, feed intake
Adding spray-dried plasma may support feed intake, weight gain and reduce diarrhea for piglets when mycotoxins are present in feed, say researchers.