Animal Well-being
Influence of Gestation Housing on Sow Welfare and Productivity
January 26, 2005By Roy Kirkwood
The data from this experiment suggests that the mixing of strange sows into groups can be done without adversely affecting fertility. The lack of overall effect on litter size and farrowing rate...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Utilization of Crystalline Amino Acids by the Gut in Growing Pigs
November 1, 2004By Nathalie L. Trottier
Conventional diets containing corn and soybean meal fed to growing pigs can be reduced in protein when a portion of the protein can be replaced by crystalline amino acids. These amino acids allow the...
Pork Quality
Relationship between glycolytic oscillations and pork color and water-holding capacity
March 2, 2004By Matthew Doumit
A system was developed to monitor in vitro glycolysis catalyzed by pig skeletal muscle proteins. Oscillatory and non-oscillatory patterns of in vitro glycolysis were observed using muscle extracts...
Pork Quality
Pork Muscling Profiling Study 2002
February 13, 2004By Matthew Doumit
This research project evaluated a variety of pork quality attributes for each of 25 different muscles from 64 carcasses. The results identified several shoulder and ham muscles that have quality...
Pork Quality
Biochemical Characterization of Pork Quality
September 2, 2003By Matthew Doumit
Sires from Duroc, Berkshire, Yorkshire and Pietrain breeds were used to produce crossbred progeny, free of the HAL-1843TM gene, that exhibit pork quality differences. Loin muscle temperature, color,...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Dietary crude protein reduction: Impact on ammonium excretion and gastro-intestinal functions in the pig
June 2, 2003By Nathalie L. Trottier
Reducing dietary crude protein concentration leads to a significant reduction in nitrogen losses in the urine, in turn reducing ammonium concentration and ammonia emission. Amino acids, the building...
Environment - Air
The Effect of Air Quality in Swine Finishing Facilities Upon Animal Performance and Environmental Pollution Potential
July 1, 2002By Robert von Bernuth
Public Health - Other
Comprehensive Review on Human Health Effects of PorkProduction Emissions
May 13, 2002By Melvin Yokoyama
Environment - Other
Interactive effect of crude protein reduction and fermentable fibers on nitrogen metabolism, ammonia utilization, and slurry composition in the growing pig
January 2, 2002By Nathalie L. Trottier
Pork Quality
Biochemical characterization of superior quality pork
September 18, 2001By Matthew Doumit
