Animal Science
Assessing the effects of farrowing crate design and mothering phenotype on pre-weaning piglet survival and performance using imaging technologies
June 7, 2023By Tami Brown-Brandl
Actual piglet mortality is a combination of a set of complex interactions between sow, piglet, environmental, and management factors. While crushing by the sow may be the ultimate cause of piglet mortality, there are many factors influencing the outcome, including hypothermia, starvation, and others. This study’s goals were to create a better environment for the piglets and the sow and to work towards methods of selecting sows with better mothering ability.
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Capturing genetic potential for greater sow lifetime productivity
February 26, 2021By W. L. Flowers
The results of this study indicate that birthweight, pre-weaning growth, and weaning weight of potential replacement gilts are aspects of the neonatal environment of replacement gilts that have a...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Managing gilt “litter of origin” to improve sow lifetime productivity
December 23, 2020By Dr. George Foxcroft PhD BSc
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Lipidome markers used for gilt selection
August 14, 2020By Dr. Kara Stewart
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Effects of supplementing transition sow diets with 3 levels of zinc on pre-wean mortality and lifetime productivity of pigs under commercial rearing conditions
July 31, 2019By Dr. Pedro Urriola Ph.D.
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Replacement gilt candidate feet, leg and reproductive trait evaluation using digital analysis and visual observation.
February 20, 2019By Dr. Kenneth J. Stalder Ph.D.
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Moderating body temperature decline in low birth weight piglets in the early post-natal period to improve survival and enhance animal welfare.
December 21, 2018By Dr. Michael Ellis Ph.D.|Katherine Vande Pol|Naomi Cooper
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Capturing genetic potential for greater sow lifetime productivity
July 19, 2018By Dr. George Foxcroft PhD BSc
Extensive collection of data on litter birth weight phenotypes has been a key part of the Preliminary (Phase 1) Trial and involved weighing successive litters born to over 1,000 Line 3 sows. In turn,...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Effects of Preweaning factors on Sow Lifetime Productivity
February 16, 2016By Mark Knauer
The objective of the study was to associate preweaning factors in gilt multiplication with the subsequent...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Optimal dietary protein for the development of gilts. NPB #15-119 (14-235-Year2)
June 29, 2015By Jeffrey Vallet
This experiment was undertaken to develop diets that could be fed ad libitum to developing gilts that would result in differences in growth rate or body composition during development. A further...
