{"id":19063,"date":"2017-05-05T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19063"},"modified":"2017-05-10T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T21:28:12","slug":"25-years-of-swine-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/25-years-of-swine-research\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years of Swine Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation outlines some of the major findings Prairie Swine Center has made through its history.<\/p>\n<p><b>EVALUATION OF FEEDERS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ADG and feed disappearance were greater with wet\/dry feeders.<\/li>\n<li>Use of wet\/dry feeders will enable pigs to be marketed 5 &#8211; 7 days earlier<\/li>\n<li>ADG increased by\u00a05%\u00a0or $1.85\/hog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>ERGONOMIC EVALUATION OF\u00a0FEEDER DESIGN<\/b> (Goal was to determine optimal feeder width, depth and lip height for different ages of pigs)<\/p>\n<p>These were the optimal dimensions found<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 248px;\" width=\"376\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 56px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 122px; height: 56px;\"><b>Area<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 114px; height: 56px;\"><b>Depth (cm)<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 118px; height: 56px;\"><b>Width (cm)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 84px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 122px; height: 84px;\">Finishing Only<\/p>\n<p>(60 kg \u2013 market)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 114px; height: 84px;\">30 \u2013 35<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 118px; height: 84px;\">35 &#8211; 40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 96px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 122px; height: 96px;\">Grower-Finisher<\/p>\n<p>(25 kg \u2013 market)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 114px; height: 96px;\">25 &#8211; 30<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 118px; height: 96px;\">32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 82px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 122px; height: 82px;\">Wean-Finish<\/p>\n<p>(8 kg to market)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 114px; height: 82px;\">25 -30<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 118px; height: 82px;\">32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>PRE-SORTING PIGS BY WEIGHT (<\/b>Compared a all in\/all out (AI\/AO) or continuous pig flow management with and without weight sorting)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ADG and behaviour did not differ between pigs in uniform and variable weight pens<\/li>\n<li>Rooms emptied 2 days faster in a AI\/AO system<\/li>\n<li>Continuous flow &#8211; Uniform and variable weight pens emptied at the same rate<\/li>\n<li>AI\/AO &#8211; variable weight pens emptied <u><b>6 days<\/b><\/u> (104 vs. 110) faster than uniform pens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>EFFECT OF ERGOT\u00a0ON PERFORMANCE <\/b>(The impact of ergot-contaminated wheat on performance of weaned pigs)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feeding high levels of ergot caused severe reductions in growth performance<\/li>\n<li>ADG was similar with diets up to .10% ergot<\/li>\n<li>Impact most pronounced in week 1 and 2<\/li>\n<li>.10% ergot allows for 10% wheat to be safely included in a nursery diet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>IMPACT OF REDUCED NOCTURNAL\u00a0TEMPERATURE ON PERFORMANCE<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setpoint temperature reduced 6\u00b0C (18 to 12)<\/li>\n<li>Two trials showed increases in ADG in the RNT rooms increased from 2.1 to 5.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Nipple Drinker Height and Flow Rate on Water Wastage\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low nipple height increased wastage by 10% in growers and 20% in finishers<\/li>\n<li>Wastage was increased by 7% at higher flow rates (500 vs. 1,000ml\/min)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONCLUSIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On average, PSC research projects return $4.10\/hog back to producers<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 33% of all projects with economic return are considered easy to adopt<\/li>\n<li>PSC projects generate $4.00 for every $1.00 of industry contribution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/25-Years-of-Swine-Research.pdf\">25 Years of Swine Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation outlines some of the major findings Prairie Swine Center has made through its history. EVALUATION OF FEEDERS ADG and feed disappearance were greater with wet\/dry feeders. Use of wet\/dry feeders will enable pigs to be marketed 5 &#8211; 7 days earlier ADG increased by\u00a05%\u00a0or $1.85\/hog ERGONOMIC EVALUATION OF\u00a0FEEDER DESIGN (Goal was to determine [&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-19063","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\/19063","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=19063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19255,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19063\/revisions\/19255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}