the Growth Potential for the Indiana Livestock Industries [PDF]
Feed, processing capacity, population density versus animal density, and environmental capacities are the four different dimensions of livestock location and growth potential analyzed for Indiana.
Allan Gray, Michael Boehlje, Tyler Mark
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Housing, stress and productivity : studies in growing and reproducing pigs [PDF]
, 2009 Commercial pig production presents the animals with a multitude of potentially stressful challenges. Distress is a threat to animal welfare and may impair productivity.
Munsterhjelm, Camilla
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Fortified milo for gestating sows
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports, 1972 G L Allee, B A Koch, Robert H Hines
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Economic Considerations of Animal Welfare Policy [PDF]
Animal welfare considerations are becoming increasingly important for producers of animal-derived agricultural products. Recent media attention on issues of housing conditions for intensively reared livestock and induced calving in dairy production make ...
Bicknell, Kathryn
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Precision Feeding of Gestating Sows Across Three Parities Using Electronic Sow Feeders
, 2020 Gestating sows experience varying nutrient and energy (E) requirements throughout gestation and across parities that are not accounted for in single-diet commercial feeding programs. The effects of precisely meeting daily E and lysine requirements for gestating sows on body weight and backfat changes and litter characteristics at birth were evaluated ...
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Utilizing stochastic genetic epidemiological models to quantify the impact of selection for resistance to infectious diseases in domestic livestock [PDF]
, 2001 Bishop, SC, MacKenzie, K
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Effect of sow gestation management on sow behaviour and on piglet survival
, 2016 L'environnement des truies pendant la gestation peut être source de stress et pourrait influencer la survie des porcelets. Une étude a été menée dans deux systèmes appliqués pendant la gestation, Conventionnel (C, caillebotis intégral) vs. Enrichi (E, litière de paille et surface par truie plus grande), afin d'évaluer leur impact sur la mortalité ...
Pastorelli, Hélène +4 more
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Developing stochastic epidemiological models to quantify the dynamics of infectious diseases in domestic livestock [PDF]
, 2001 Bishop, SC, MacKenzie, K
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Methionine utilization in primiparous gestating sows
Amino acids (AA) requirements for gestating sows are critical for optimizing health and performance. The NRC (2012) gestating sow model estimates AA requirements based on protein retention and AA profiles in various pools including fetuses, mammary tissue, placenta and fluids, uterus, and maternal body.
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Mixing sows into groups only days after AI [PDF]
, 2011 Beek, V., ter, Soede, N.M.
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