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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Pig growth"”.
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The Effect of Phytonutrient Supplementation on Pig Growth
… in efficient approaches to enhance animal growth and development. Phytonutrients are considered a promising alternative to synthetic compounds to improve animal growth performance. The objective of the study was to examine the effects of varying doses of phytonutrient supplementation on pig …
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Nutritional Strategies to Improve Pig Growth and Performance
Many factors influence the efficiency of muscle growth including genetics, nutrition, and environment. The neonatal period is characterized as a time of rapid growth. Growth rate is reduced during neonatal nutrient restriction possibly due to altered satellite cell activity which can permanently …
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Evaluation of pelleting process parameters on feed nutrients, starch gelatinization and pig growth performance
… effects of starch, vitamin retention, and swine growth performance. A third experiment evaluated methodologies for estimating gelatinized starch in swine feed. Across all experiments, diet formulation was constant. In Exp. 1, treatments were arranged in a 2 × 3 factorial design plus a control, …
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Influence of Bacterial Fermentation on Soybean Meal Nutritional Value and Early Weaned Pig Growth Performance
… detergent fiber (NDF) restrict its use in piglet feed. Our lab has previously isolated a thermophilic strain of Bacillus licheniformis (B4) that displays high enzymatic activity and probiotic potential. The aims of this study were to evaluate B4’s ability to reduce ANFs in a lab-scale SBM …
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The Effect of Supplemental Grape Seed Extract on Pig Growth Performance and Body Composition During Heat Stress
… causes heat stress (HS) resulting in altered growth, body composition and metabolic dysfunction in pigs. Grape seed extract (GSE) has been shown to reduce inflammation, and improve glucose transport and metabolism. Thus, GSE may be an effective supplement to combat the consequences of heat …
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Effect of sire line and selection index category on pig growth performance from weaning to harvest and carcass characteristics
… of selection index category within sire line on growth performance (from 6.1 ± 0.29 to 129.8 ± 2.16 kg BW) and carcass characteristics of pigs under commercial conditions. A randomized complete block design (blocking factor being day of start on test) was used with a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement …
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Effects of the Maillard reactions on chemical composition and amino acid digestibility of feed ingredients and on pig growth performance
… and AA digestibility of feedstuffs fed to pigs, and also to determine the negative effects of feeding heat-damaged soybean meal (SBM) or heat-damaged distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) on growth performance of weanling pigs. In experiments 1, 2, 3, and 4, the primary objective was …
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Dietary supplementation of saccharin-based artificial sweeteners and capsicum oleoresin as a strategy to mitigate the negative consequences of heat stress on pig growth performance and intestinal physiology
Pigs exposed to elevated ambient temperatures exhibit reduced average daily gain, alterations in muscle and fat deposition during growth phases, and decreased overall health. Negative aspects of gastrointestinal (GI) function, integrity and permeability also result from hyperthermia. …
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INVESTIGATION OF ACUTE STRESS IMPACT ON NURSERY PIG GASTROINTESTINAL FUNCTION AND ABILITY OF BIOACTIVE COMPONENTS OF GARLIC TO MITIGATE STRESS-INDUCED PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES
… feed and water deprivation on nursery pig growth performance, gastrointestinal function, and ability of garlic-derived diallyl disulfide (DADS) and diallyl trisulfide (DATS) to mitigate deprivation-induced effects. For the first experiment, the effects of a 24-h post-weaning feed, …
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Effects of Variation in Early Growth Rate of Pigs on Subsequent Growth Performance
… evaluate the relationship between early and late growth performance and carcass composition of pigs under modern management conditions. Results of the first study indicated pigs with heavier BW (1.8 vs 1.3 kg; P < 0.001) at birth were heavier ( P < 0.001) at weaning and had greater (P 0.05) …
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Mechanistic insight into the role of dietary fibers and short chain fatty acids in the regulation of metabolism and inflammation in the pig
… on nutrient digestibility, dietary fiber affects growth performance and host metabolism via modulation of gut microbial community structure and production of short chain fatty acids (SCFA). A series of in vivo experiments were conducted to determine the effects of dietary fiber on pig growth …
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Effects of phytase and mycotoxin control strategies in nursery pig diets and determining finishing pig lysine requirements
… One experiment using a total of 360 nursery pigs was used to determine the effect of increasing phytase on nursery pig growth performance and bone ash characteristics. Two experiments using a total of 4,223 pigs were used to determine the optimal dietary standardized ileal digestible (SID) …
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Evaluation of corn germ and DDGS in diets fed to pigs
… and corn germ to diets fed to growing-finishing pigs on pig growth performance, carcass composition, and pork fat quality. The first experiment was conducted to investigate if negative impacts of DDGS on carcass fat quality may be ameliorated by addition of corn germ, tallow, palm kernel oil, or …
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Simulation of a swine nursery to facilitate economical management
… operation of swine nurseries by predicting pig growth and feed consumption, building fuel consumption, and cost per unit of gain produced. lt was based on an existing swine model that was converted to an hourly basis. An optimization option was incorporated into the operational model to …
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Effect of a Fermented Yeast Product on the Gastrointestinal Tract Microbial Diversity of Weaned Pigs Challenged With Salmonella Enterica Typhimurium Dt104
… offers an alternative to antimicrobial growth promoters by stimulating key populations of the GIT bacteria that can ferment these non-digestible compounds, producing various short chain fatty acids used by the animal. The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of a …
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Development of dynamic computational model for an integrated farming system
… cropping system to recycle nutrients for crop growth. Heat/power production by the CHP unit provides energy to maintain operations for swine facilities and digesters. A series of virtual simulations for different scenarios were applied to the proposed model to show different energy usage …
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Nutritional evaluation of fermented soybean meal fed to weanling pigs
… soybean meal (SBM-CV), and fish meal. Three growth performance experiments were also conducted using the values for the digestibility of P, AA, and energy determined in the initial 3 experiments to formulate diets. The objective of Exp. 1 was to determine the apparent total tract …
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Reducing crude protein levels in diets fed to young pigs to optimize growth performance and intestinal health
… (CP) concentration in diets fed to weanling pigs on growth performance, post-weaning diarrhea (PWD), blood characteristics, gut morphology, and products of protein fermentation. Both experiments used the same formulation of 3 corn-soybean diets to generate 3 experimental treatments: 3 diets …
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Examining the Influence of Muscle Fiber Type on Protein Turnover Signaling in Growing Pigs
Postnatal skeletal muscle growth occurs through myonuclear accretion and high protein turnover rate. While fiber type composition of the muscle could affect protein turnover rate, less is known about how fiber type influences the regulation of protein synthesis and degradation signaling pathways. …
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Influence of Nutritional Modifications on Sow, Litter, and Nursery Performance
… product in gestation, lactation, and weaned pig diets on reproductive, growth, and immune parameters.</p> <p>In the first study 99 sows were provided a control diet, or the control diet supplemented with 1% L-arginine from gestation d 93 to 110. Compared to control-fed sows, no differences …
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