Swine Resources - Management

June 2021

High dietary levels of iron affects performance, hematological status, and intestinal function in growing-finishing pigs.

May 2021

Changes at weaning can have significant detrimental impacts on the piglet's gastrointestinal tract structure and function. Sexual dimorphism, weaning weight, and weaning age play a role.

April 2021

After playing with toys, pigs seemed to be less fearful and in a more positive emotional state.

February 2014

New neonatal strategies of micronutrient supplementation to piglets may be required nowadays.

February 2014

In conclusion, some management practices, such as feeding strategy of breeding gilts, housing conditions of sows...have an influence on the outcome of reproductive parameters.

March 2014

It can be concluded that litter performance at weaning is related to birth weight coefficient of variation.

April 2014

These results demonstrate that management options can affect the reproductive performance and injuries of gestating sows in the ESF system.

April 2014

Biosecurity is a useful measure to promote the reduction of antimicrobial use in the pig industry.

May 2014
Muns R, Silva C, Manteca X, Gasa J
Effect of cross-fostering and oral supplementation with colostrums on performance of newborn piglets.
J Anim Sci. 2014 Mar;92(3):1193-9. doi: 10.2527/jas.2013-6858.

The aim of the experiment was to study the effect on litter performance of two oral supplementation strategies on piglets born weighing 1.35 kg or less.

May 2014

The behavior of three antibiotics (bacitracin, chlortetracycline, and tylosin) and two classes of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), tet and erm, were monitored in swine manure slurry under anaerobic conditions.