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Maintaining Growth in pigs weaned from Large Litters

Published: March 1, 2015
Summary
Introduction Weaning is arguably the most stressful period in the pig’s life. At weaning the pig is removed from the sow where it has had access to ~20 small feeds of sow’s milk each day. It is removed to unfamiliar surroundings and mixed with strange pigs in pens where the only available food is predominantly vegetable in origin and generally fed in dry form. It is hardly surprisi...
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Seamas Clarke
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Allan Schinckel
Purdue University (USA)
9 de marzo de 2015
in this paper Effect of weaning age on growth performance (Leliveld et al., 2013 ) were the pigs provided access to creep feed ? had the 4 and 5 week weaned piglets consumed creep feed or sows feed before weaning ?
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