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The water intake of weaned pigs from 3 to 6 weeks of age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

B.P. Gill ,
P.H. Brooks  and
J.L. Carpenter
B.P. Gill
Affiliation:
Seale-Hayne College, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6NQ
P.H. Brooks
Affiliation:
Seale-Hayne College, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6NQ
J.L. Carpenter
Affiliation:
Seale-Hayne College, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6NQ
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The use of drinking water as a vehicle for the medication of early weaned pigs offers an advantage over infeed medication in that water intake postweaning is substantially higher than feed intake. A precondition for effective water medication is the accurate assessment of water intake. At present there is little published information on the water demand of early weaned piglets reared under contemporary conditions of housing and nutrition. The objective of this study was to establish whether the water intake of early weaned piglets could be predicted from easily measured variables such as feed intake and liveweight.

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Pig Production
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1986 , March 1986 , pp. 125
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1986

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