The aim of the study is to evaluate different production systems in pig farming including economic, animal welfare and environmental aspects with computer simulation. The computer model considers a vertically integrated system with farrowing, weaning, fattening and slaughtering stage as well as the transportation of pigs between theses stages. Housing systems were distinguished in individual an...

mineral contents of camel meat were investigated during different periods of fattening. 12 camels (camelus dromedarius), at 12 months of age, were fattened with the same diet during six and nine month periods. feed compositions included 25% alfalfa, 25% straw and 50% concentrate (55% barley, 20% bran, 15% beet pulp, 8% cottonseed meal and 2% salt) were fed under the same conditions. completely ...

The examination of lung lesions on fattening pigs at slaughter is a useful tool for estimating the importance of respiratory diseases in a farm. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between prevalence and extent of lung lesions at slaughter and the previous pig growth during the fattening period. Data were collected on near of 7000 pigs from 14 French farms, individually ident...

Variability within a group of animals is an important information which can be used for further optimization of pig fattening. Hence, this project will provide a generic methodology to continuously monitor the differences of growth and body conformation within a group of animals using a set of robust and simple, i.e. low-end image analysis (LEIA) algorithms. The methodology will be breed indepe...

Aim of the study was to evaluate, if the mixed breed German Landrace x Turopolje (L x T) was suitable for conventional fattening and the production of high quality palatable meat. Hence, we chose to study the carcass characteristics of three diff erent breeds: true bred Turopolje (T x T) (n=15), an autochthonous Croatian breed, German Landrace x Pietrain (L x P) (n=19), a typical German pig hyb...

The tail of the particle swarm optimisation (PSO) position distribution at stagnation is shown to be describable by a power law. This tail fattening is attributed to particle bursting on all length scales. The origin of the power law is concluded to lie in multiplicative randomness, previously encountered in the study of first-order stochastic difference equations, and generalised here to secon...

forty growing ram lambs (lori-bakhtiari breed) averaging 28 kg (±1.5) were allocated in this study to evaluate the optimal dietary energy density in a lamb fattening enterprise in iran. the feed intake (fi), body weight (bw), gain to feed ratio (g:f) and carcass characteristics were studied. four treatments differed in metabolizable energy content (me) as follow; 2, 2.3, 2.6 and 2.9 mcal/kg for...

The beef cattle breeding development is one of the strategic directions for livestock in Russia and CIS countries, including Republic Belarus. fattening most important point minimizing costs. Studies have shown that animals’ greatest body weight 900 kg had adult culled over a period 120 days, as well heifers with calving on pasture during 30-month fattening. During 28-month suckling steers at h...