Sentence examples for level of feed intake from inspiring English sources

Piglet weight at birth and at weaning was maximized at 1.5 M level of feed intake.

Additionally, average daily feed intake during lactation for sows on 0.5 M (6.6 kg/d) level of feed intake during gestation tended (P = 0.06) to be greater than sows on 2.0 M (5.9 kg/d) level of feed intake.

The results revealed that nutrient utilization was unaffected up to 60% level but it was drastically reduced at 40% level of feed intake.

However, both piglet weight at birth (1.46, 1.52, 1.53 and 1.51 kg for piglets from sows on 0.5 M, 1.0 M, 1.5 M and 2.0 M levels of feed intake during gestation, respectively) and at weaning (6.37, 6.55, 6.64 and 6.38 kg for piglets from sows on 0.5 M, 1.0 M, 1.5 M and 2.0 M levels of feed intake during gestation, respectively) were maximized at 1.5 M level of feed intake.

All sows were fed one common corn-soybean meal-based diet with the amount of 1.0 × maintenance energy level of feed intake (106 × BW0.75) throughout gestation except 4 periods of 7 d when dietary treatments were imposed on day 27, 55, 83 and 97 of gestation.

Ruminants attempt to select a diet that promotes high level of feed intake (Cooper et al., 1996).

Results showed that both BW gain and BF change during gestation for sows on 1.5 M (49.7 kg and 3.1 mm, respectively) and 2.0 M (52.5 kg and 3.7 mm, respectively) levels of feed intake were significantly (P < 0.01) greater than sows on 0.5 M (26.1 kg and −0.1 mm, respectively) and 1.0 M (35.6 kg and 0.1, respectively) levels of feed intake.

Eight Boer (75%) × Spanish (BS) and eight Spanish (S) wether goats (155 ± 8 days of age and 19.2 ± 2.3 kg BW, initial) were used in a replicated crossover design experiment with a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments to determine the effects of genotype and diet quality on heat production with ad libitum, near maintenance and fasting levels of feed intake.

The current study investigated the effects of different levels of feed intake during 4 short periods of gestation and of housing systems on sow and litter performance.

There were no differences (P > 0.1) among 4 levels of feed intake in terms of numbers of total born and weaning piglets.

During the 4 periods, sows were fed 1 of 4 different levels of feed intake: 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 × maintenance energy level (0.5 M, 1.0 M, 1.5 M and 2.0 M, respectively).