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Management Strategies In Farrowing House To Improve Piglet Pre-Weaning Survival And Growth, Ramon Muns Vila, Padet Tummaruk
Management Strategies In Farrowing House To Improve Piglet Pre-Weaning Survival And Growth, Ramon Muns Vila, Padet Tummaruk
The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine
Post-partum and lactation are the most complex periods in the swine production chain. Newborn pigs are highly vulnerable due to relatively low body weight at birth and physiological immaturity. Most of the management strategies performed in farrowing houses are oriented to ensure a proper level of colostrum intake by the piglets. Colostrum is essential as an energy source and to provide passive immunity to piglets. Different farrowing supervising protocols have been comprehensively investigated to reduce early mortality as well as to assist newborn piglets in obtaining an optimal amount of colostrum and milk. However, little is known of the benefits …
The Effect Of Feeding Extra Colostrum, Obtaining Using An Electric Sow Milking Machine On Farrowing Sows, On The Survival Rate Of Small-Sized Piglets, Vivat Chavananikul, Nalinee Imboonta, Sahas Nuchanart
The Effect Of Feeding Extra Colostrum, Obtaining Using An Electric Sow Milking Machine On Farrowing Sows, On The Survival Rate Of Small-Sized Piglets, Vivat Chavananikul, Nalinee Imboonta, Sahas Nuchanart
The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine
The study was conducted in 2 parts. The first was the development of a milking machine for sows, composed of a vacuum generator providing 33-38 cmHg, a pulse rate of 30-45/mins and a set of 2 teat cups to fit the sows teats. The results from 34 milkings at farm 1 and 28 milkings at farm 2 showed that the amount of colostrum obtained was 96.77±38.63 ml and 114.93±75.09 ml, respectively, taking an average of 19 mins/milking with no damage to the udder. The second part of the study was to manually feed 9 ml of the colostrum, obtained from …
Survival Rates, Growth Rates, Weaning Weights And The Impact Of A Colostrum Supplement In Low Birthweight Piglets, Kangsadarn Pinsumrit, Morakot Suparattanasit, Arisa Oponsawat, Padet Tummaruk, Annop Kunavongkrit
Survival Rates, Growth Rates, Weaning Weights And The Impact Of A Colostrum Supplement In Low Birthweight Piglets, Kangsadarn Pinsumrit, Morakot Suparattanasit, Arisa Oponsawat, Padet Tummaruk, Annop Kunavongkrit
The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine
The objective of the present study was to investigate survival rates, growth rates, weaning weights and the effect of colostrum in low birth weight piglets. The study was made on 288 piglets with a birth weight below 1 kg. After the individual birth weights were measured, the piglets were divided into 2 treatment groups, a control group (the piglets received colostrums after birth from their dams according to the usual management practice) and a colostrum supplemented group (piglets received an extra 20 ml of colostrum within 12 hrs of birth). The study showed that the survival rate of the low …