{"id":19637,"date":"2017-07-06T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19637"},"modified":"2017-07-06T09:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:23:31","slug":"variation-in-pig-performance-a-checklist-to-improve-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/variation-in-pig-performance-a-checklist-to-improve-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"VARIATION IN PIG PERFORMANCE: A CHECKLIST TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variation in bodyweight has a large impact on the profitability of pork production in western Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Variation is measured as either standard deviation or coefficient of variation.<\/p>\n<p>Reasonable targets for CV\u00a0are 20% of weaning weights, 12 to 15% for nursery exit weights and I 0 to 12% for weight at first pull\u00a0from the finishing barn.<\/p>\n<p>The number of animals that must be weighed in order to accumtely estimate CV is greater than that\u00a0required to estimate the avemge weight.<\/p>\n<p>More animals must be weighed at younger ages, because\u00a0variation as a proportion of the mean is much higher.<\/p>\n<p>If the CV for bodyweight in the feeder barn is above I 5%, reducing it is a reasonable possibility, and\u00a0probably includes increasing access to feed and water and addressing health problems. if present.<\/p>\n<p>If the CV in growout is less than 12%. then the best strategy is to management variability, as reducing it\u00a0will be very difficult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/VARIATION-IN-PIG-PERFORMANCE.pdf\">VARIATION IN PIG PERFORMANCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variation in bodyweight has a large impact on the profitability of pork production in western Canada. Variation is measured as either standard deviation or coefficient of variation. Reasonable targets for CV\u00a0are 20% of weaning weights, 12 to 15% for nursery exit weights and I 0 to 12% for weight at first pull\u00a0from the finishing barn. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2102,16108,19,931,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meat-quality","category-nutrition-pork-insight-articles","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19637","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=19637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19639,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19637\/revisions\/19639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}