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A note on the effect of white-flowered peas on sow reproductive performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

R. B. Ogle  and
K. Annér
R. B. Ogle
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
K. Annér
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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Abstract

The effect on sow reproductive performance of including 100 g white-flowered peas (Pisum sativum hortense, cv. Vreta and Lotta) per kg, replacing barley, wheat and soya-bean meal in gestation and lactation diets, was studied over four parities using 24 pairs of crossbred littermate sows. Net sow weight gains and changes in backfat thickness over the complete reproductive cycle were similar for both treatments. Piglet live-weight gains and mean litter size at birth were not influenced by treatment, although litter size at weaning was 0·5 pigs higher (P > 0·05) for the control sows, due to higher post-natal mortality rate in the litters from the sows given the pea diets. It can be concluded that inclusion of white-flowered peas at a rate of 100 g/kg had no adverse effect on reproductive performance, with the exception of slightly higher post-natal piglet mortality.

Keywords

peasreproductionsows
Type
Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 155 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1993

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