Contents

Production Management

• Impact of Repeated Out-of-Feed Events and Fineness of Grind on Grow-Finish Performance
  
• The Case Against Evening-Up Litters Until Weaning
  
• Patterns of Drinking Water Use in Pork Production Facilities

Business Management

• Producers’ Decisions

Odor Issues

• Odor Footprint Tool Progress: Regional Output Resources

Reproduction

• Freezing Swine Embryos: Do Success Rates Differ Between Breeds?
• Regulation of Pituitary Gene Expression in Lines of Swine with Different Ovulation Rates

Nutrition

• Effect of Diet and Sire Line on Grow-Finish Performance (PDF)
  
• Effects of Feeding Increased Levels of Vitamin B12 to Weaning Pigs (PDF)

Effects of Nutrition During Gilt Development on Lifetime Productivity of Sows of Two Prolific

• Maternal Lines: Growth and Puberty Characteristics of Rep 1 Gilts (PDF)
  
• Effect of Low-Protein Non-Amino Acid Supplemented Diet and Ractopamine (Paylean®) on Growth Performance and Serum Urea Concentration of Late-Finishing Pigs (PDF)
  
• Effect of Dietary Crude Protein Versus Crystalline Amino Acids on Growth Performance, Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Concentration, and IGF-I mRNA Expression in Growing-Finishing (PDF)

Genetics

• Genes Expressed in Response to PRRSV (PDF)

Further Information

To view the full list of Nebraska Swine Report 2005 articles, click here

Source: University of Nebraska, Lincoln - March 2006