"2006 Nebraska Swine Report" by Duane Reese

Department of Animal Science

 

Date of this Version

January 2006

Comments

Copyright 2006 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on behalf of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. This publication is online at http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/sendIt/ec219.pdf

Abstract

Table of 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' Management

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 Crow-Finish Performance
• Effects of Feeding Increased Levels of Vitamin B12 to Weaning Pigs
• Effects of Nutrition During Gilt Development on Lifetime Productivity of Sows of Two Prolific Maternal Lines: Growth and Puberty Characteristics of Rep 1 Gilts
• Effect of Low-Protein Non-Amino Add Supplemented Diet and Ractopamine (Paylean®) on Growth Performance and Serum Urea Concentration of Late-Finishing Pigs
• Effect of Dietary Crude Protein Versus Crystalline Amino Adds on Growth Performance, Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Concentration, and IGF-I mRNA Expression in Growing-Finishing Gilts

Genetics
• Genes Expressed in Response to PRRSV

Issued January 2006

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