{"id":17595,"date":"2014-11-03T13:09:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=17595"},"modified":"2014-11-03T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:09:43","slug":"are-my-pigs-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/are-my-pigs-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Are My Pigs Eating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent trials conducted at the Prairie Swine Centre, Inc. have confirmed\u00a0the importance of feed intake by the piglet immediately post-weaning<br \/>\nand\/or consumption of creep feed in the farrowing room. We have\u00a0also demonstrated that more than half of the piglets may not consume\u00a0either creep feed, or the starter diet immediately post-weaning. \u00a0However, in commercial barns, where producers typically measure\u00a0feed disappearance, piglets are maintained in groups, which makes\u00a0it difficult to determine which piglets are actually consuming feed. \u00a0In order to estimate which piglets consume some of the food offered \u00a0during a specified time period, we have developed a technique where\u00a0we incorporate non-toxic, food grade dye into the ration. We then used\u00a0this technique on commercial farms, to demonstrate to participating\u00a0swine producers, and swine producers in general, that a proportion of\u00a0pigs in a pen may not be accessing feed during a 24 to 48 hour period. \u00a0Producers may adopt and use this method periodically on farm to\u00a0determine if management changes affect the proportion of piglets\u00a0accessing the feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent trials conducted at the Prairie Swine Centre, Inc. have confirmed\u00a0the importance of feed intake by the piglet immediately post-weaning and\/or consumption of creep feed in the farrowing room. We have\u00a0also demonstrated that more than half of the piglets may not consume\u00a0either creep feed, or the starter diet immediately post-weaning. \u00a0However, in commercial barns, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595","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=17595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17597,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions\/17597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}