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Early Weaned Pig

Published: October 12, 2010
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INTRODUCTION The swine industry has largely gone to early weaning (3 weeks or earlier) especially in confinement production systems with environmentally controlled nurseries. Economic factors such as increasing the number of pig per sow per year and the need to maximize the capital cost of swine farrowing units by moving more sow through the facilities has resulted in this change. Two essenti...
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Joaquin Armando Paulino Paniagua
Universidad ISA (Instituto Superior de Agricultura)
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Dave Albin
Insta-Pro International
5 de febrero de 2017
Thank you for this useful information. I assume the extruded soy recommendations are for full-fat? Extruded, partially deoiled soy meals, when processed properly, can replace solvent soybean meals in these formulations. Care must be taken to extrude the beans at the correct temperate, especially for these sensitive piglets.
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