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The effect of nutrition on the reproductive performance of first-litter sows 3. The response to graded increases in food intake during lactation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

R. H. King  and
A. C. Dunkin
R. H. King
Affiliation:
Animal Research Institute, Werribee, Victoria, 3030, Australia
A. C. Dunkin
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
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Abstract

Seventy-two animals were used in an experiment to study the response of first-litter sows to graded increases in daily food intake during a 28-day lactation. Six food intakes, ranging from 1·5 to 4·8 kg/day were compared. The results showed that both live-weight loss and backfat loss during lactation increased linearly as food intake decreased (P < 0·01).

Subsequent ovulation rate was unaffected by food intake but both weaning to mating interval (Y,, days) and the proportion of sows exhibiting oestrus within 8 days of weaning (Y2)improve d linearly with increase in daily food intake during lactation (X, kg) (P < 0·01); the respective linear regressions being Y, = 39·0 - 6·26 and Y2 = 0·198A - 0·15. A sub-group of 24 gilts which were older at first conception (340·5 v. 213·5 days; P < 0·01) exhibited oestrus sooner after their first litters were weaned (12·8 v. 22·1 days; P < 0·05) than the remaining 48 younger animals.

Nitrogen balance increased linearly with food intake (P < 0·01) but even at the highest food intake, nitrogen balance remained negative (−15·5 g N per day). Food intake had no effect on the growth rate of piglets to 3 weeks of age but in the 4th week of lactation there was a quadratic increase in piglet growth rate as sow food intake increased (P < 0·01).

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Animal Production , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , February 1986 , pp. 119 - 125
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1986

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