Growing bigger pigs

Calcium Requirements of Growing Pigs »

The role of calcium and phosphorus in animal nutrition has received much attention in recent years, and many studies have been made to determine the need of these minerals in the nutrition of the pig. Much of the work has dealt with deficient rations and means of correcting the deficiencies. Recently the individual minimum requirements of these minerals have received the attention of investigat...

Nutrition management of growing pigs

Nutritional management of pigs to optimise growth demands pig-specific, time-specific and place-specific determination and provision of nutritional requirement. These elements need to be incorporated into response prediction models that operate in a real-time (not retrospective) closed-loop control environment. This implies appropriate means for the on-line measurement of response to change in ...

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Respiratory Disease in Growing Pigs Module

Copyright ©NADIS 2017 Introduction In the first paper of this series, emphasis was given to the breakdown in a group of pigs with a new disease causing an acute outbreak of pneumonia and other respiratory ailments. Here, the aim is to concentrate on more long standing (chronic) enzootic (endemic) disease, which arguably, in the UK pig industry, produces even greater financial loss than sudden o...

Lysine requirement for maintenance in growing pigs

Probably due to methodological problems the knowledge about the AA requirement for maintenance in pigs is rather scarce. In the present study an alternative experimental approach was applied and its underlying hypothesis was tested, whether protein retention decreases with body weight (BW), when daily lysine intake remains constant and acts as the limiting factor for protein retention, and whet...