September 30, 2008
Energy is the most expensive dietary essential in pig diets, but it receives much less attention in North America than is deserved by its importance. The digestible energy (DE) and metabolizable...September 29, 2006
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...July 26, 2006
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...May 1, 2006
As increasingly severe restrictions on the use of antimicrobials in pig production loom, it is imperative that the industry find alternate ways to enhance pig performance and health. These ways will...March 24, 2004
Under the conditions of these experiments, lactic acid added to complex nursery diets does not improve growth performance and (or) health in weaned pigs in large groups on a commercial farm, in the presence or absence of dietary lactose.
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