{"id":18329,"date":"2016-02-22T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=18329"},"modified":"2016-02-22T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:22:08","slug":"swine-feed-efficiency-influence-of-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/swine-feed-efficiency-influence-of-temperature\/","title":{"rendered":"Swine Feed Efficiency: Influence of Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pig performance, including feed efficiency, is maximized when animals are kept within their thermoneutral zone. When\u00a0describing the environmental conditions that the animal is raised in, it is important to realize that there are several factors\u00a0influencing pig comfort. \u201cEffective\u201d environmental temperature is a better measure than \u201cair\u201d temperature, as it\u00a0takes into account relative humidity, air movement (velocity), flooring type and condition, insulation of the building, evaporative cooling, and huddling of pigs. Pigs of different size and age have different thermoneutral comfort zones, as\u00a0younger, smaller pigs have higher temperature requirements and have a smaller tolerance for temperature changes.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Tom G. Miller, Iowa State University,\u00a0IPIC 25f 2012<\/p>\n<p>Full full document\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IPIC25f-SFE-Influence-of-Temperature.pdf\">IPIC25f SFE Influence of Temperature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pig performance, including feed efficiency, is maximized when animals are kept within their thermoneutral zone. When\u00a0describing the environmental conditions that the animal is raised in, it is important to realize that there are several factors\u00a0influencing pig comfort. \u201cEffective\u201d environmental temperature is a better measure than \u201cair\u201d temperature, as it\u00a0takes into account relative humidity, air movement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329","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=18329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18333,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions\/18333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}