Pig Industry Technical Articles
Article published the February 27, 2021:
The intestinal morphology can be compromised in pigs when exposed to heat stress (HS), partly due to increased production of reactive-oxygen species. Because methionine (Met) functions as intracellular antioxid...
Article published the February 24, 2021:
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is a member of the genera Alphacoronavirus in the family Coronaviridae causes newborn and weaning piglets serious diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, and high mortality. More...
Article published the February 23, 2021:
Introduction
Animal-source feedstuffs are generally superior to plant-source ones for the growth and health of livestock, poultry, and fish (Wu 2018). This is due, in part, to the greater quantity of proteinog...
Article published the February 22, 2021:
1. Introduction
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs would like to see an increased number of pig production chains addressing improved pig welfare. The sustainable pork chain called “De Hoeve” w...
Article published the February 17, 2021:
The impact of heat stress on pigs is wide-ranging and costly, often causing serious growth and reproductive problems while also increasing the likelihood that affected stock will succumb to illness or disease...
Article published the February 12, 2021:
Mycotoxin contamination in newly harvested grain is a very important parameter to consider. That grain is used to feed the animals for the whole year, until the next harvest. As the saying goes, “knowin...
Article published the February 5, 2021:
Introduction
Voluntary feed intake is often low and variable directly after weaning. As a result, research has focused on how nutritional stressors can be overcome to stimulate feed intake and subsequently inc...
Article published the February 5, 2021:
Objectives: A retrospective epizootic analysis is conducted by us testifies that among infectious pathology of pigs respiratory diseases in the Ukrainian pig farms are most mass and unprofitable and largely red...
Article published the February 5, 2021:
1. Introduction
Weaning is one of the most stressful events in pig production [1]. Early weaned piglets face several nutritional and psychosocial stressors, including the transition to a solid diet and the abr...
Article published the February 5, 2021:
Introduction
Market availability and fluctuation in the cost of conventional feed ingredients are pushing producers to increase inclusion of low-cost, fibre-rich co-products in the diets of monogastric animals...