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A note on the effects of forced air movement and environmental temperature on weight gain in the pig after weaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

L. E. Mount ,
I. B. Start  and
D. Brown
L. E. Mount
Affiliation:
ARC Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge CB2 4AT
I. B. Start
Affiliation:
ARC Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge CB2 4AT
D. Brown
Affiliation:
ARC Statistics Group, Department of Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DX
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Abstract

Twenty-six groups of four or eight pigs of mean initial weight 23·2 kg and mean age 84 days were exposed to environmental temperatures of 8, 12, 16 or 20°C under still-air conditions (wind-speed = 0·1 m.s−1) or of 12CC with wind-speeds of 0·45 or 0·8 m.s−1. The animals were fed at a fixed level close to three times their maintenance requirement, with water ad libitum, and were weighed weekly over a 7-week period. Variation in temperature between groups from 8 to 20°C had no significant effect on weight gain, but increasing wind-speed to 0·8 m.s−1 at 12°C resulted in reduced weight gain.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1980 , pp. 295 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1980

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