Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-x5gtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-16T17:00:40.024Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The effect of changing diet in an abrupt, phased or free-choice manner on performance of pigs from wean to finish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

E. Magowan  and
M.E.E. McCann
E. Magowan
Affiliation:
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, Large Park, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DR, United Kingdom
M.E.E. McCann*
Affiliation:
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, Large Park, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DR, United Kingdom
*
Email:Elizabeth.McCann@afbini.gov.uk
Get access

Extract

In commercial pig production, several diets are offered to pigs dependent on their age and/or weight. A common dietary regime includes at least four changes of diet from wean to finish but there is a lack of information in the literature regarding the optimum method of changing diet. A common practice is to abruptly change from one diet to the next, although an abrupt diet change has been reported to cause a disturbance in the gut flora resulting in diarrhoaea, especially in the post-weaning stage (Meyer et al 1974). The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of changing diet in an abrupt, phased or free-choice manner on the performance of pigs from wean to finish.

Type
Theatre Presentations
Information
Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2007 , April 2007 , pp. 83
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2007

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Lesniewska, V., Laerke, H.N., Hedemann, M.S., Hojsgaard, S., Pierzynowski, S.G. and Jensen, B.B. (2000). The effect of change of the diet and feeding regimen at weaning on duodenal myoelectricial activity in piglets. Animal Science. 71: 443–451.Google Scholar
Meyer, R.C., Simon, J. and Byerly, C.S. (1974). The etiology of swine dysentery. I. Oral inoculation of germ-free swine with Treponema hydysenteriae and Vibrio coli . Vet Pathology. 11: 515–526.Google Scholar