There is potential to significantly reduce the cost of sow feeding, however,\u00a0current nutrient recommendations need improvement. Phase feeding, using\u00a0separate diets for early\/mid gestation and late gestation, may save up to $5.00\u00a0per sow per gestation. Using a single diet for gestation, but phase feeding at a\u00a0higher level in late gestation, may save up to $3.00 per sow per gestation.\u00a0During late gestation and lactation, addition of free amino acids can reduce\u00a0feed cost. These improvements may also increase sow productivity and\u00a0increase sow longevity.<\/p>\n
Introduction<\/p>\n
Nutrition of sows has received little attention compared to growing-finishing\u00a0pigs, despite the fact that sows consume approximately 20% of the all the\u00a0feed consumed in pork production. Therefore, improving sow nutrition offers\u00a0the opportunity for substantial savings in feed cost. This paper will review\u00a0recent research, discuss future opportunities in sow nutrition, suggest new\u00a0feeding strategies for sows, and estimate their impact on feed cost.<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/p>\n
There is a great deal more to be learned about energy and amino acid\u00a0requirements during different phases of gestation and lactation. As this\u00a0information becomes available, we expect to further reduce the cost of sow\u00a0feeding while maintaining or increasing sow productivity and longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is potential to significantly reduce the cost of sow feeding, however,\u00a0current nutrient recommendations need improvement. Phase feeding, using\u00a0separate diets for early\/mid gestation and late gestation, may save up to $5.00\u00a0per sow per gestation. Using a single diet for gestation, but phase feeding at a\u00a0higher level in late gestation, may save up to $3.00 per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[1809,25706,190,46,108,102,9652,79,1053,14,104,8186,25536],"class_list":["post-14804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production","tag-acid","tag-applying-new-research-to-reduce-sow-feed-costs","tag-cost","tag-feed","tag-feeding","tag-gestation","tag-nutrient-requirements-of-prolific-sows","tag-nutrition","tag-phase-feeding","tag-pig","tag-sow","tag-sow-longevity","tag-zonejection-conservation-tillage-manure-nutrient-delivery-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14808,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14804\/revisions\/14808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}