{"id":19876,"date":"2017-07-31T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19876"},"modified":"2017-07-31T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:37:06","slug":"impact-of-piglet-birth-weight-and-birth-order-on-subsequent-growout-performance-carcass-quality-muscle-composition-and-eating-quality-of-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/impact-of-piglet-birth-weight-and-birth-order-on-subsequent-growout-performance-carcass-quality-muscle-composition-and-eating-quality-of-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of piglet birth weight and birth order on subsequent growout performance, carcass quality, muscle composition and eating quality of pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This study wanted to answer the questions of:<\/p>\n<p>Does reduced birth weight result In changes In\u00a0muscle fibre number and\/or type?<br \/>\nDoes reduced birth weight affect the eating\u00a0quality of pork?<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion<br \/>\n\u2022 As litter size increased,\u00a0average birth weight decreased<br \/>\n\u2022 The variability in birth weight within a litter\u00a0was unaffected by litter size<br \/>\n\u2022 Weaning weight, and weight at 5 and 7\u00a0wks post-weaning were unaffected by litter<br \/>\nsize<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Carcass quality was consistent across all groups<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Impact-of-piglet-birth-weight-and-birth-order-on-subsequent-growth-performance-carcass-quality-muscle-composition-and-eating-quality-of-pork.pdf\">Impact of piglet birth weight and birth order on subsequent growth performance, carcass quality, muscle composition and eating quality of pork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study wanted to answer the questions of: Does reduced birth weight result In changes In\u00a0muscle fibre number and\/or type? Does reduced birth weight affect the eating\u00a0quality of pork? Conclusion \u2022 As litter size increased,\u00a0average birth weight decreased \u2022 The variability in birth weight within a litter\u00a0was unaffected by litter size \u2022 Weaning weight, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2102,19,931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meat-quality","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19876","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=19876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19878,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19876\/revisions\/19878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}