Pig

Thứ 7, 11/01/2025

Basic infrastructure for small-scale pig farming

The size of your pig housing infrastructure will depend on the number of pigs you have. Ideally, it should be strong, simple and adaptable

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Mycotoxin deactivation with natural enzymes

Using enzymes is one of the efficient approaches against the toxic effects of mycotoxins, which transforms the mycotoxin into a non-toxic molecule

Producing pigs without antibiotics, How to do it?

High standards of biosecurity and hygiene are amongst the most important measures needed to achieve pig production that is free from antibiotics use

Pig diets, Porcine plasma or egg yolk antibodies?

With spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP), how is pig performance affected when compared to diets containing egg yolk antibodies? Spanish researchers did a trial.

Healthy sow gut, higher litter weight

Sows have become more productive, resulting in more but vulnerable piglets. Simultaneously, sows endure large body weight losses during lactation.

Fly larvae protein in animal feed

Chances are that most of the meat you consume comes from livestock reared on protein sources such as soya. But there is an urgent need to increase supply

Enzymes make the pelleting process less power consuming

The feed pelleting process consumes a lot of energy. One way to reduce the energy needed is to use enzymes. They are known to speed up reactions

Enhancing pig immunity with yeast additives

The addition of probiotic yeast appears to positively affect the piglet immune status, whether supplied in sow feed or in weaner piglet feed.

Effects of phytogenic feed additives on animal health

Phytogenic substances represent one of the most interesting classes of feed additives. They bear the potential to effectively repress the pathogenicity

Drinking water supplementation with organic iron in lactating piglets

Adding organic iron in piglets drinking water during lactation may be an alternative to parenteral administration of inorganic iron.

Creep feed Getting more piglets interested

Getting piglets to eat before weaning helps them to ease the weaning dip. Not even 50% of them, however, actually do eat prior to weaning. How best to stimulate