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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"market-weight pigs"”.
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Effects of Animal Handling and Transportation Factors on the Welfare, Stress Responses, and Incidences of Transport Losses in Market Weight Pigs at the Packing Plant
… determine the causes of dead and non-ambulatory pigs at US packing plants and to identify management strategies to reduce these transport losses. Four studies involving a total of 297 trailer loads of market weight pigs (n = 42,283) were conducted within a Midwestern US production system to …
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Characterizing the amount and variability of intramuscular fat deposition of pork loins using barrows and gilts from two sire lines
… to characterize marbling variability in pigs. A total of 196 pigs (at 10 weeks of age) were raised in a 98 d growth study. Pigs were fed in a university finisher barn in pens of 4 pigs each. Equal numbers of barrows and gilts sired by boars targeting meat quality or lean growth were used. …
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An evaluation of the effects of floor space and lysine deficient diets on the growth rate of finishing pigs and an analysis of post-restriction compensatory gain
… due to the limited capacity to harvest pigs in processing facilities. This caused a back-log of market weight pigs with no available shackle space to be harvested. Due to this, producers worked to implement strategies to slow the pigs’ growth as they approached market weight. Due to …
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Factors influencing aggression in newly mixed pigs
996 pigs were used to understand the effects of aggression on growth in swine, the role of previous experience on the level of aggression, and the basis on which a pig accesses recognition and familiarity when mixed with an unfamiliar pig. The hypothesis that fighting in newly mixed pigs is …
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Evaluation of trailer thermal environment during commercial swine transport
… shown to increase the number of dead or down pigs following transport. Despite the general understanding of the relation between challenging transport conditions and pig welfare, little quantitative data exist which document conditions within transport trailers. To better characterize the …