Explore all the information on
Swine nutrition
Pigs require a number of essential nutrients to meet their needs for maintenance, growth, reproduction, lactation, and other functions. However, factors such as genetic variation, environment, availability of nutrients in feedstuffs, disease levels, and other stressors may increase the needed level of some nutrients for optimal performance and reproduction.
Swine require six general classes of nutrients: water, carbohydrates, fats, protein (amino acids), minerals, and vitamins. Energy, although not a specific nutrient, is an important nutritional component and is primarily derived from the oxidation of carbohydrates and fats. In addition, amino acids (from protein) that exceed the animal’s requirements for maintenance and tissue protein synthesis provide energy when their carbon skeletons are oxidized. Antibiotics, chemotherapeutic agents, microbial supplements (prebiotics and probiotics), enzymes, and other feed additives are often added to swine diets to increase the rate and efficiency of gain, to improve digestibility, and for other purposes, but they are not considered nutrients.
Pigs require a more concentrated diet and should be fed a less-fibrous feed than cattle, sheep, or horses. As they grow, their nutritional requirements change and the diet should meet their needs in various phases of growth and stages of production.
On 9-10 September, Animine and the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) organized the third Animine Academy in the Chantilly area (France). This two-day international scientific conference gathered more than 100 animal nutritionists from the industry and academy. High quality presentations focused on current challenges in animal production...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Continued performance without AGPs In 1988 Norel opened their Biotechnology plant in Leon (Spain) to start research and production of probiotics for animal nutrition and their effect on the intestinal health and performance parameters. This Biotechnology plant is the only one in Spain specialised in the production of probiotics for animal nutrition. Norel’s Biotechnology development been carried out with the important collaboration of national and international Universities and...
Comments : 2
Recommendations: 0
Effect of Supplemental Dl-met Above Requirement on Performance and Serum Concentration of Amino Acids in Heat Stressed Pigs
Suggested link
Background and objectives Wheat bran (WB) has been demonstrated to promote intestinal health and improve piglet performance (Molist et al. 2011 & 2012). One proposed mechanism for this effect is that WB inhibits the attachment of bacteria, specifically enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) K88, to the intestine (Gonzaláz-Ortiz et al. 2014) thereby reducing the risk of ETEC-K88 induced diarrhoea. The objective of this trial was to determine whether WB inclusion...
Comments : 9
Recommendations: 0
INTRODUCTION Yeast derivatives (YD) are widely used in animal nutrition as natural additives. YD contain glucomannoproteins, betaglucans and nucleotides complex derived by acid hydrolysis of the cell wall of yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae. YD can bind and inhibit pathogen bacteria like Salmonella Spp, Clostridium Spp and E. Coli, therefore promoting growth of beneficial gut bacteria. YD have been also associated with positive immunostimulation at gut level in different species....
Comments : 9
Recommendations: 4
Introduction Energy is the most expensive component in swine diets, and record high feed costs in recent years have caused nutritionists to focus on optimizing caloric efficiency of feed ingredients used in commercial feeds. As a result, nutritionists need comprehensive, accurate, meaningful, and standardized analytical methods to quantify lipid peroxidation in feed ingredients before they will be able to effectively evaluate the impact of dietary lipid peroxidation on growth...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 4
Introduction L-carnitine (LC), a naturally occurring and widely distributed in nature compound was discovered in 1905 by Gulewitsch and Krimberg [1]. For the last 50 years this nutrient has received a substantial attention from medical sciences and poultry and pig nutritionists. Main dietary sources of carnitine in poultry/animal nutrition are animal-derived feed ingredients while grains and their by-products are quite...
Comments : 9
Recommendations: 1
Effect of Sc 47 probiotic yeast on the health and zootechnical performance of weaned piglets
Suggested link
Introduction Postnatal muscle growth and repair rely on the ability of satellite cells, muscle-resident stem cells, to activate, proliferate, and fuse into growing myofibers (Seale et al. 2000; Dumont et al. 2015). During the neonatal stage of life, the fractional rate of protein synthesis contributing to muscle growth is highest (Davis and Fiorotto 2009), marked by increased satellite cell activation, proliferation (Allbrook et al. 1971; Campion et al. 1981), and myonuclear...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 0
1. Introduction Efforts to improve nutrient digestibility by the pigs can have effects on profitability of the pork industry (National Pork Board, 2012). Studies indicate that non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) in corn and soybean meal negatively affect nutrient digestibility (Moeser et al., 2002; van Kempen et al., 2006). Whole corn grain contains 27e32 g of xylose/kg (Knudsen, 1997) as arabinoxylans in pericarp and aleurone (Landis et al., 2001). Soybean meal contains 18e19 g of...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 0
Overview of Performance of Listed Vitamin Companies in 2023
Suggested link
Introduction Animal diets based on corn and soybean meal are very deficient in available phosphorus (P) to the point that supplementation is necessary using sources of high P availability. Dicalcium phosphate is commonly used as a source of supplemental P. Commercial dicalcium phosphate is a mixture of varying amounts of monocalcium and dicalcium phosphates, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, and impurities (Lima et al., 1995). Some animal production technicians point out that...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Introduction Molasses, a mixture of sucrose, glucose, fructose, minerals, pantothenic acid, etc., is derived from sugar-rich crops (beet, cane, blackstrap, etc.) and could be considered an alternative for cereals (Bayley et al., 1983). Cane molasses, which was used in this study, usually contains sucrose, protein, non-protein amino acids, and fatty acids (Mee et al., 1979). It can reduce the cost of diets, because the price of molasses is much lower than that of cereals in...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Can water hyacinth like Salvinia molesta be used as an ingredient for swine feed? If yes, how to process the same? ...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Dr. Anup Kalra, Director Marketing at Ayurvet Ltd, highlights the key aspects of the latest findings of Herbology applied in animal nutrition and why Phytogenics improve the health of the livestock, in the Technical Seminar "Strategies to improve the profitability", which was held during VIV Asia 2019....
Comments : 3
Recommendations: 3
Effect of Supplemental Dl-met Above Requirement on Performance and Serum Concentration of Amino Acids in Heat Stressed Pigs
Suggested link
Accurate Nutrition is a perfect way all the knowledge about farm organization, housing, and nutrition, stated Pierre Lebreton from Nubiote Consulting, France, during Performance 2019...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 2
Jennifer Maurin, Business Development Manager at PANCOSMA, introduces the range of Bioactive products which brings a reliable, cost-effective natural solution for better growth performance in animals during IPPE 2019, where PANCOSMA also presented XTRACT® 6930, a plant extract brand for monogastrics.
...
Comments : 2
Recommendations: 7
Background With the increased global production of livestock, dairy, and poultry, the demand for feed is also increasing and co-products from the tropical food industries are increasingly used in diets fed to pigs. These co-products include copra meal and copra expellers, palm kernel meal and palm kernel expellers, and rice bran. Global production of palm kernel and copra products is relatively modest compared with the production of soybean meal and canola meal [1] and...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 0
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, and the accumulation of manure solids in the pen. The production of noxious gases and accumulation of solids in the pen are due to inadequate microbial decomposition of manure (Davis et al., 2008). Mal odor of manure is an acute environmental problem, because they cause...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Effect of Sc 47 probiotic yeast on the health and zootechnical performance of weaned piglets
Suggested link
Introduction The intensive pig rearing system originates large amounts of waste; therefore, there is a great concern regarding the improvement of productivity and prevention of contamination of the environment with the waste. The nitrogen concentration in manure is relatively high and the excess is converted into substances like nitrate and ammonia, which are harmful to the environment, to the performance of animals, and to the health of animals and humans. The nutritional...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 0
Considering the maximum protein deposition in carcasses of different sex and genetics is approximately 70 kg in weight, it can be deduced that, in market conditions in which such animals are slaughtered weighing more than 100 kg, there would be a need to maximize protein deposition in the initial growth phase if we consider that these animals exhibit compensatory deposition of protein in the carcass.
Based on these considerations, we established a research program that was conducted...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Overview of Performance of Listed Vitamin Companies in 2023
Suggested link
Background There are three enteric coronaviruses that can cause gastrointestinal illness in young pigs e.g., transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), and porcine delta coronavirus (PDCoV) [1]. Transmissible gastroenteritis virus has been present in the United States since 1946, but PEDV and PDCoV were introduced more recently in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The spread of PEDV among swine herds was rapid; and strict biosecurity...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
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 reservations with regards to the consumption of this meat (FAO, 2014a). The most widely consumed red meat throughout the world is pork, whose demand in the last decades experienced a strong increase; this is due to the changes in consumption patterns derived from the increase of...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
