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Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Impacts of Feeding DDGS to Swine: Aerial Emissions and Potential Management Strategies
Feeding corn dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) to swine is becoming common in pork production. With feed being the primary cost in pork production and continued interest in...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Impact of Liquid Swine Manure Application on Soybean Yield and Surface and Ground Water Quality
In an earlier study conducted at Iowa State University from 2001 to 2006, liquid swine manure was applied to corn plots to give a total nitrogen application of 150 lbs/acre and the targeted nitrogen...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effect of selection for feed efficiency during the growing period on sow feed efficiency and reproductive performance
Feed efficiency is increasingly important because of the high cost of feed. Residual feed intake (RFI) is a measure of feed efficiency that is defined as the difference between observed feed...
Animal Well-being
Objective assessment tools and pain management for lame sows
Objectives of this study were to evaluate pressure algometry and thermal sensitivity as methods of pain assessment and to assess sodium salicylate and flunixin meglumine (BanamineÒ) for pain...
Animal Science
Evaluation of two mycotoxin binders as a means to reduce the adverse effects of vomitoxin on the performance and health in growing/finishing pigs
The 2009 corn crop was one of the worst in recent memory in terms of overall quality and the incidence and levels of mycotoxin contamination. It was a very serious concern to the Iowa pork...
Swine Health - General Disease
Effect of tempertature and relative humidity on UV254 inactivation of airborne viral pathogens.
The proposed study was Part Two of a 2-year project to test whether ultraviolet light could serve as a practical and cost-effective method to inactivate aerosolized pathogens in commercial swine...
Human Nutrition
Consumer acceptability and stability of omega-3 enriched pork products
In this study the degree of DHA/EPA enrichment of pig tissues that can be achieved by feeding pigs a diet supplemented by different levels of Gromega, an algal source of DHA/EPA, while still...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
Genetic improvement of farrowing rate and non-productive days in swine by selection for litters per sow per year
The first purpose of this study was to determine the genetic and phenotypic correlations between maternal and post-weaning traits from a seedstock swine breeding system. The post-weaning traits...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of a second generation live chimeric PCV1-2 vaccine in the PCV2-PRRSV coinfection model
The efficacy of a live chimeric porcine circovirus (PCV) type 1-2 vaccine based on subtype PCV2a was evaluated in a PCV2b and porcine...
Swine Health - General Disease
Influence of PRRSV viremia on PCV2-vaccine efficacy in conventional growing pigs with maternally derived anti-PCV2-antibodies
Several porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccines are now commercially available and have been shown to be effective at decreasing the occurrence of porcine circovirus associated disease...
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