Pig Industry Technical Articles
Article published the April 15, 2019:
Introduction
Weaning is a critical period in the pig rearing process. At this time, the piglets are exposed to different types of stressors (environmental, nutritional, psychological, and social), causing phys...
Article published the March 12, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
In the intensive animal agriculture system, swine production faces many challenges related to the management of manure. These may include handling and proper storage of manure, odor production, an...
Article published the February 26, 2019:
Introduction
Yeast derivatives (YD) are widely used in animal nutrition as natural additives [1,2]. YD typically contains a complex of mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) and polysaccharides, glucomannoproteins, and...
Article published the January 2, 2019:
Introduction
In nutritional programs for swine, antibiotic and anti-microbial additives that act as growth promoters have been used in sub-therapeutic and constant doses ever since the 1950s. In post -weaning,...
Article published the December 13, 2018:
The modern animal exploitation is characterized by a high productive intensity, regardless of the species. This makes the animals to undergo constant stressing situations that may result into a higher frequency...
Article published the December 13, 2018:
Introduction
Commercial pig production was significantly intensified in the last decades and is distributed throughout the world, excluding some regions that maintain certain cultural and religious reservation...
Article published the December 11, 2018:
Introduction
Cashew bagasse bran (CBB) is characterized as a medium-value fiber and low-energy food containing 88.70% dry matter, 4.15% ether extract, 14% crude protein, 12.07% crude fiber, 1,123 kcal/kg of di...
Article published the November 13, 2018:
Introduction
Antibiotics, since their discovery in the 1920s, have played a critical role in contributing to the economic effectiveness of animal production as feed supplements at sub-therapeutic doses, to imp...
Article published the November 8, 2018:
1. Introduction
In-feed supplementation of antibiotics was firstly reported to promote growth in chickens (Moore et al., 1946) and subsequently in pigs (Jukes et al., 1950; Luecke et al., 1950). Since then, an...
Article published the October 29, 2018: