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This chapter reviews current knowledge on gilt development-related key management and nutritional strategies that improve longevity and their production, as well as enhance offspring performance and survivability.
Price: $32.50
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Publication Date:
07 May 2025
ISBN: 9781835454015
Format: eBook
BISACs:
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Factors affecting gilt development: birth weight and litter of origin
- 3 Colostrum and milk intake
- 4 Weaning age
- 5 Target weight
- 6 Nutrition strategies during the growing phase
- 7 Mammary development and feed management
- 8 Space allowance and group size
- 9 Boar exposure
- 10 Flush-feeding
- 11 Gestation feeding strategies
- 12 Avoiding unsuckled mammary glands
- 13 Heat stress
- 14 Other environmental considerations
- 15 Animalhuman interaction
- 16 Conclusion
- 17 Conflict of interest statement
- 18 References