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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"piglet performance"”.
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Impact of multiple suckling of litters during lactation on pre-weaning piglet performance
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Methods to reduce rectal temperature decline of newborn piglets and the effect of cross-fostering strategies on piglet pre-weaning growth and mortality
… sows over recent decades. As a result, average piglet birth weight has decreased, and the number of low birth weight piglets (i.e., < 1 kg) has increased. Lower birth weight piglets have higher levels of mortality, particularly associated with hypothermia and starvation. Larger litters often …
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Effects of gestation length and supplemental dietary fat on colostrum and milk composition in swine
… dietary fat on gross milk composition, piglet performance and immunoglobulin concentrations. Induced sows receiving no additional dietary fat tended to have fewer piglets weaned per litter than naturally farrowing sows receiving the same dietary treatment, but a reduction was not …
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Managing the lactating sow to stimulate lactation ovulation
… at approximately 24 days post-partum. Increasing piglet age to greater than 28 days improves piglet performance and welfare; however, it also results in reduced sow farrowing frequencies, making the commercial adoption of increasing piglet weaning age unsustainable. Stimulating a sow to ovulate in …