Tag: pig nutrition
Pig Feed Quality Conference highlights importance of ABC-4 values
Held in Vietnam in May and June, the Pig Feed Quality Conference focused on various topics such as piglet health and immunity. The event...
SFR consultant touches upon challenges in swine production
Jan Fledderus, who joined Schothorst Feed Research (SFR) as Pig Product Manager, touched on the challenges facing swine production, including production efficiency, antibiotic use,...
Selko to focus on dietary strategies for piglets at conference in Germany
Selko will share its research at the joint conference of International Pig Veterinary Society and European Symposium Porcine Health Management to be held on...
Metabolites and gut maturationin newly weaned piglets
More than 9,000 researchers, veterinarians, swine nutritionists, and pig farmers gathered digitally or in person at Wageningen University this year for the ArMoR (research...
Improving the profitability of fattening pigs
The use of natural feed additives in the pig fattening phase are often excluded on the assumption of prohibitive cost; yet losing pigs at...
Global Swine Feed Market
The increasing demand for pork across the world, food safety concerns, and trends such as animal health and welfare, sustainability and environmental impacts are...
Ideal protein concept in poultry and pigs
It can be concluded that, despite the existence of different methods for determining the ideal protein profile, the results obtained are relatively consistent. Any...
Role and functions of emulsifier as a feed additive in poultry and pigs
The major cost of feed formulations is energy. Hence, from an economic point of view, enhancing the energy efficiency of these raw materials is...
New paper: Live yeast improves pigs’ resistance to heat stress
According to a paper published in the British Journal of Nutrition, the live yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079 improves pigs’ resistance to heat...
Copper metabolism and growth promotion: Is there a relation?
A recent study conducted in the United States has shown that nursery piglets fed 250 mg of Cu/kg from CuSO4 present an improved feed...
