Pig Industry Technical Articles
Article published the December 5, 2007:
The two to three weeks after weaning are a difficult period in the piglet’s life. During this time the piglet is exposed to tremendous stress mainly due to an abrupt change from milk to a dry, vegetable-based d...
Article published the November 30, 2007:
Vitamin E (α-tocopherol) is a critically important nutrient for all confinement-reared swine. It is a primary dietary antioxidant that maintains cell membrane integrity and also enhances humoral- and cell...
Article published the November 20, 2007:
Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element for animal nutrition. Organic forms of selenium are recognized as more bioavailable than inorganic forms (Daniels, 1996) for most species including pigs (Mahan and Pe...
Article published the November 15, 2007:
The swine industry continues to move to earlier weaning. This trend is driven by economic factors such as improving the number of pigs per sow per year and the need to minimize the capital cost of farrowing fac...
Article published the November 12, 2007:
The pig industry has a rich supply of feed ingredients and feed additives that are purported to have physiological effects on the pig, and thereby improve growth performance and/or protect the pig from diseases...
Article published the November 7, 2007:
The term ‘organic minerals’ is misleading in that minerals themselves are inorganic, meaning that they do not contain carbon. However, the term has been adopted to refer to mineral supplements containing inorga...
Article published the November 5, 2007:
Recently, phytogenic feed additives have become more and more interesting for the feed industry. Phytogenics represent a fairly new category of feed additives with natural origin. Phytogenic compounds have trad...
Article published the October 24, 2007:
It is estimated that in 2030 the world population will be close to eight billion people, which corresponds to an annual increase of 4%. In the same period, global food production is projected to increase by onl...
Article published the October 16, 2007:
The piglet at weaning is faced with numerous stressors that include separation from the sow and litter mates, being moved to a different shed and environmental conditions, and changes in feed type and feeder. I...
Article published the October 5, 2007:
Our thanks to the author and Conference Organisers, a Committee consisting of both University and Industry colleagues.
The full paper will appear in the Conference Proceedings ('Recent Advances in Animal Nut...