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Strategies to improve the growth and homogeneity of growing-finishing pigs: feeder space and feeding management

BACKGROUND: The aim was to test two strategies to improve the growth rate of the slow-growth pigs and to increase the batch’s homogeneity at slaughter. In Trial 1 a total of 264 weaned piglets were distributed into 24 pens (11 piglets/pen) according to sex and initial body weight (BW) for the transi...

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Autores principales: López-Vergé, Sergi, Gasa, Josep, Temple, Déborah, Bonet, Jordi, Coma, Jaume, Solà-Oriol, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29988623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-018-0090-9