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The effect on litter performance at birth of feeding gilts fermented liquid feed (FLF), non-fermented liquid feed (NFLF) or dry feed (DF) for 14 days pre-farrowing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

C.A. Tsourgiannis ,
V. Demečková ,
J. Eddison  and
P.H. Brooks
C.A. Tsourgiannis*
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth, Faculty of Land, Food and Leisure, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6NQ, UK.
V. Demečková
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth, Faculty of Land, Food and Leisure, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6NQ, UK.
J. Eddison
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth, Faculty of Land, Food and Leisure, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6NQ, UK.
P.H. Brooks
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth, Faculty of Land, Food and Leisure, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6NQ, UK.
*
ctsourgiannis@plymouth.ac.uk
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Feeding and management during gestation focuses on preparing the sow for parturition and lactation. Despite improvements in husbandry in recent years, mortality remains around 10% and may be increasing (Herpin et al., (1993). Cole, (1990) found that foetal growth rate in the last trimester of pregnancy increases dramatically compared with early and mid-gestation and Cromwell et al., (1989) reported that a 75% increase in feed intake during the last 23 days of gestation increased reproductive performance and also increased birth weight of piglets (1.48 vs. 1.44, P < 0.003). Results from previous studies have also shown that an increase in feed intake from 2.3 kg to 3.9 kg per day can reduce sow backfat loss during the reproductive cycle and increases reproductive life (Miller et al., 2000). The study reported here investigated the influence of three different diet forms fed to gestating gilts for 14 days pre-farrowing, on litter characteristics at birth.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2003 , 2003 , pp. 68
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2003

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