Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical Review of Acidifiers
September 29, 2006By James Pettigrew
The inclusion of various organic acids or their salts to diets improves the growth performance of pigs and helps in preventing scouring and high mortality post-weaning. The beneficial effects of...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical Review of Functional Animal Proteins
July 26, 2006By James Pettigrew
Spray-dried plasma and immune egg products provide dramatic benefits when added to diets of young weaned pigs. Spray-dried plasma increases growth rate and resistance to enteric infection, while...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Carbohydrate and Bacterial Non-antibiotic Production Enhancers
June 1, 2006By John A. Patterson
Although there is a relatively small data set on specific probiotic or prebiotic treatments, especially when the experiments also have an antibiotic treatment as a positive control, there is an...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical review on botanical extracts as alternatives production enhancers in swine production system
February 3, 2006By Sam Baidoo