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Adaptation of growing pigs to changes in environmental temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

S. R. Morrison  and
L. E. Mount
S. R. Morrison
Affiliation:
A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge
L. E. Mount
Affiliation:
A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge
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Summary

Pigs fed ad libitum were exposed to changes from 22 to 33°C and from 33 to 20°C. Responses were investigated in two groups of animals kept for three successive periods of four weeks at 22°, 33° and finally 20°C.

Twenty-four hr after the first change, from 22 to 33°C, there was a decline in body weight; after the second change, from 33 to 20°C, there was a large increase. After the change to 33°C, feed intake by the second day and growth rate for the first week were about the same as at the end of the four weeks, but about 12 days were required for water intake, rectal temperature and respiratory rate to reach steady values.

After the change from 33 to 20°C, steady values for respiratory rate and rectal temperature were reached in one and 12 days respectively. The rate of gain in weight increased to reach a peak nine days following the temperature change and then declined.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 1971 , pp. 51 - 57
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1971

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