Prairie Swine Centre Annual Report 2009
Monday, November 01, 2010The annual report from the Prairie Swine Research Centre in Canada.
Click on the links to the articles below to see the full papers.
Engineering
- Evaluation of methods for controlling and monitoring occupational exposure of workers in swine facilities
- Application of computer simulation to evaluate potential measures for improving energy efficiency in hog production
- Comparison of performance of radiant and forced-air convection heaters in swine grow-finish rooms

Ethology
- The interaction of group size and alley width on the movement of market pigs
- Free space utilization by sows in free access stalls
- Effects of transport conditions and vehicle design on the welfare and meat quality of pigs in Western and Eastern Canada
Nutrition
- Impact of feeding diets containing extruded flaxseed meal and vitamin E in finishing swine
- The effect on growing pig performance of changes in energy intake achieved through restriction of feed intake versus changes in dietary energy concentration
- Enriching pork products with omega-3 fatty acids may affect pork quality
- Effect of an NSP-hydrolysing enzyme (Rovabio Excel® in the diet of lactating sows on feed intake, body condition and litter performance and in vivo and in vitro nutrient digestibility
- In vitro fibre fermentation characteristics of specialty ingredients with varying non-starch polysaccharides levels
- The effect of different feed ingredients on fermentation metabolites and nitrogen excretion in pigs













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