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Verification of the Agricultural Research Council (1981) recommendations on energy requirement of the pregnant sow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

Pauline A. Lee
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading, RG2 9AT
K.G. Mitchell
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading, RG2 9AT
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Extract

The Agricultural Research Council (1981) states the energy requiremnets for pregnant sows in terms of amounts needed per day to ensure specific net pregnancy weight gains for differing weights at service (Table 1.). An experiment was set up primarily to test the validity of these recommendations which were derived by factorial calculations and secondly to examine the relationship between condition (P2 measurement) and weight changes over the reproductive cycle.

Type
Feeding and Management of Sows
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1984

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