Meeting global feed protein demand: challenge, opportunity, and strategy

SW Kim, JF Less, L Wang, T Yan, V Kiron… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Feed protein supplements are one of the most expensive and limiting feed ingredients. This
review offers a comprehensive analysis of how the expected expansion of animal …

Digital livestock systems and probiotic mixtures can improve the growth performance of swine by enhancing immune function, cecal bacteria, short-chain fatty acid …

SO Park, KH Seo - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In response to climate change, the use of digital livestock systems and probiotic mixtures as
technological strategies to improve animal health and production is driving new innovations …

Genetics of digestive efficiency in growing pigs fed a conventional or a high‐fibre diet

V Déru, A Bouquet, E Labussière… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of diets with increased dietary fibre content (HF) from alternative feedstuffs is a
solution to limit the impact of increased feed costs on pig production. This study aimed at …

Genomic analyses of nitrogen utilization efficiency, its indicator trait blood urea nitrogen and the relationship to classical growth performance and feed efficiency traits …

M Schmid, R Weishaar, J Seifert… - Journal of Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Improving the nutrient efficiency in pork production is required to reduce the resource
competition between human food and animal feed regarding diet components edible for …

Prediction of nutrient digestibility in grower‐finisher pigs based on faecal microbiota composition

LMG Verschuren, D Schokker… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbiota play an important role in total tract nutrient digestion, especially when fibrous
diets are fed to pigs. This study aimed to use metagenomics to predict faecal nutrient …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in faecal digestibility values related to feed efficiency traits of grower-finisher pigs

LMG Verschuren, D Schokker, R Bergsma… - Animal, 2021 - Elsevier
Providing pigs a diet that matches their nutrient requirements involves optimizing the diet
based on the nutrient digestibility values of the considered feed ingredients. Feeding the …

[HTML][HTML] Variation and estimation of nitrogen utilization efficiency in a crossbred pig population

D Berghaus - 2022 - opus.uni-hohenheim.de
Efficient utilization of dietary nitrogen (N) in pork production is of increasing concern.
Previous studies revealed that a genetic basis for N utilization efficiency (NUE) might exist …

Individual differences in behavior affect total tract fiber digestibility: the example of collared peccary

RM Borges, SLG Nogueira-Filho, PLG Cairo… - animal, 2020 - cambridge.org
Differences in how individuals cope with stressful conditions (eg novel/unfamiliar
environment, social isolation and increases in human contact) can explain the variability in …

[HTML][HTML] Genomische und mikrobielle Analysen von Effizienzmerkmalen beim Schwein

RR Weishaar - 2022 - opus.uni-hohenheim.de
Die meisten Merkmale in der Tierzucht, einschließlich der Effizienzmerkmale bei
Schweinen, werden von vielen Genen mit geringer Wirkung beeinflusst und haben eine …

[PDF][PDF] Between animal variation in dietary nitrogen and amino acid efficiency in grower-finisher pigs

LMG Verschuren, MPL Calus, AJM Jansman… - … feed efficiency in pigs, 2021 - library.wur.nl
Overall feed efficiency of pork production is the result of optimizing diets on the one hand
and of active selection of pigs for improved feed efficiency in breeding programs on the other …