Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-07T02:21:19.250Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A note on the influence of an acidified liquid sow-milk replacer on the performance of sucking and early-weaned piglets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

M. Ellis  and
P. Rowlinson
M. Ellis
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
P. Rowlinson
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Get access

Abstract

Litters of piglets were given ad libitum access to a sow-milk replacer (SMR) during lactation (200 g SMR per I) and the 1st week after weaning (100 g SMR per I). Weaning was at 3 and 4 weeks of age in the first and second studies respectively. SMR was readily consumed but was associated with a high incidence of scouring, reduced intakes of creep food, and (in one study) increased mortality. There was a trend towards increased litter weight in the 4-week weaning study only.

Type
Research Article
Information
Animal Production , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , August 1989 , pp. 139 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1989

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Armstrong, W. D. and Clawson, A. J. 1980. Nutrition and management of early weaned pigs: effect of increased nutrient concentrations and (or) supplemental liquid feeding. Journal of Animal Science 50: 377–384.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Braude, R., Mitchell, K. G., Newport, M. J. and Porter, J. W. G. 1970. Artificial rearing of pigs. 1. Effect of frequency and level of feeding on performance and digestion of milk proteins. British Journal of Nutrition 24: 501–516.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Braude, R. and Newport, M. J. 1977. A note on a comparison of two systems for rearing pigs weaned at 2 days of age, involving either a liquid or a pelleted diet. Animal Production 24: 271–274.Google Scholar
English, P. R., MacLean, K. and MacPherson, O. 1988. Evaluation of a system based on the combination of liquid and dry diets for establishing early-weaning pigs. Animal Production 46: 518–519 (Abstr.).Google Scholar
Hogberg, M. G. 1987. Reducing baby pig losses through supplementation of sow's milk with a milk replacer. Michigan State University Research Reports, pp. 5–7.Google Scholar
Lecce, J. G., Armstrong, W. D., Crawford, P. C. and Ducharme, G. A. 1979. Nutrition and management of early weaned piglets: liquid vs. dry feeding. Journal of Animal Science 48: 1007–1014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nielsen, N. C., Christfnsen, K., Bille, N. and Larsen, J. L. 1974. Pre-weaning mortality in pigs. 1. Herd investigations. Nordisk Veterinarmedicin 26: 127–150.Google Scholar
Speer, V. C. 1987. Supplemental milk for nursing pigs. Iowa State University Research Reports, pp. 21–22.Google Scholar
Veterinary Investigation Service. 1959. A survey of the incidence and causes of mortality in pigs. I. Sow survey. Veterinary Record 71: 777–786.Google Scholar