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Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
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Applying Hog Manure on Forage Land Gives Dramatic Yield Response
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Carbon Dioxide Emission and Water Evaporation from Deep Litter Systems
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A Checklist of Nutritional, Environmental and Management Strategies for Voluntary Feed Intake
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Measuring feed intake is still one of the best ways to accurately formulate diets for swine. After all, if you don’t know what the average daily feed intake is how can you accurately predict carcass performance. In order to accurately measure feed intake, feed disappearance must be measured at two periods during each stage of the growth cycle. As well, pig weights need to be measured corresponding to the times when feed intake is monitored. Placing the collected information such as PorlMASTER (Univ of Guelph) or GrowthMASTER (Prairie Swine Centre) will plot the ADFI against NRC values. Only then will producers get an accurate reflection of the what the pigs are consuming on a daily basis.
Farrowing and Savaging in Wild Boar Sows (Poster)
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The Building of PSC Elstow Research Farm
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Micronized and flaked wheat in nursery diets
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Micronization and flaking are likely to improve grain nutrient utilization by young pigs. One hundred sixty pigs weaned at 13.4 +/- 1.0 days of age were used to determine the effect of the inclusion of either micronized, flaked and ground or just ground white wheat (AC Karma) in nursery diets. Micronization and flaking increased the wheata
EFFECTS OF FLUCTUATING TEMPERATURES ON ISOWEAN PIGS
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An evaluation of mattresses and mats in two dairy units.
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In order to investigate the relative merits of mats and mattresses in terms of cow comfort, production and performance, 29 cows were housed on ethylethene vinyl acetate (EVA) mats and 29 on mattresses of loose rubber crumb with a polypropylene cover, at each of two similar dairy units. Both mats and mattresses were newly installed at the start of the trial. The cows were housed in the autumn after calving. Milk yield was recorded daily. Cows were weighed and scored for body condition, locomotion, dirtiness and hock and knee injury at fortnightly intervals. Feed offered was recorded daily and refusals were weighed weekly. Monthly milk records of milk yield, milk composition and somatic cell count data were available for both herds. In addition, 24 h behavioural observations of 15 core cows in each group were made at weeks 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 16 and 32 post-housing. There was do difference between cows on mats and mattresses in milk yield, composition or quality, in feed intake; in weight loss or body condition score; in severe hock or knee injury; or in the incidence of lameness. Cows on mattresses tended to have slightly higher total dirtiness scores than those on mats and had dirtier udders. However, over the whole housing period, cows on mattresses spent longer feeding, ruminating and lying, and a greater proportion of their lying time was spent ruminating. Cows on mattresses appeared to adapt to housing more quickly than those on mats. Overall, neither mat nor mattress gave advantages in terms of production or performance. Cows were slightly cleaner on mats but behavioural indices suggest that cow comfort was greater on mattresses.