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The effects of water and creep feed provision on the performance of sucking piglets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

B.P. Gill ,
P.H. Brooks  and
J.L. Carpenter
B.P. Gill
Affiliation:
Scottish Agricultural College, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB9 1UD
P.H. Brooks
Affiliation:
Polytechnic South West, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6NQ
J.L. Carpenter
Affiliation:
Polytechnic South West, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6NQ
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The Codes, of Recommendations for the Welfare of Livestock : Pigs (1990) suggest that sufficient clean water should be made available to pigs but makes no specific reference to sucking piglets. Similarly ARC (1901) provide no recommendations on the water requirements for this class of pig. The RC 1989 proposal, for a Regulation concerning minimum standards for the protection of intensively farmed pigs, is more specific. It states that all pigs after the age of two weeks shall have access to adequate fresh, potable water at all times. The aim of this study was to establish the supplementary water requirements of sucking piglets weaned at three weeks of age and whether this reguirement was modified by the provision of creep feed.

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Pig Production
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1991 , March 1991 , pp. 130
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1991

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