Sentence examples for nursery performance from inspiring English sources

The age and weight at which pigs are weaned is an important determinant for nursery performance.

Research by Main et al. determined that weaning at 21.5 d is optimal for nursery performance in multisite production systems [ 27].

A secondary objective of this study was to determine extraneous factors which may influence growth performance in the nursery as such factors are critical for assessing the association between potential biomarkers and nursery performance.

Modelling the herd information and individual piglet traits in relation to growth performance revealed that the weight at weaning and the age at weaning are significantly associated with nursery performance.

Paredes et al. demonstrated that sex can be significantly associated with nursery performance in different data sets although the authors attributed this consequence to differences in the proportion of intact males [ 25].

Litter characteristics were not associated with nursery growth performance.

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of coated sodium butyrate (CSB) supplementation to peripartal and lactating sows and nursery pigs on lactation performance and nursery growth performance.

In conclusion, CSB supplementation tended to increase colostral IgG and IgA concentrations in sows and improved growth performance of nursery pigs under an immune challenge when supplemented in the nursery diet.

In conclusion, sucrose and molasses effectively replaced lactose, supporting comparable performance in nursery pigs.

Thus, it is important to develop a mechanism to evaluate nursery seedling quality and performance prior to field planting.

However, 5% dietary WB supplementation altered microbiota community, increased the production of bacterial metabolites, and improved the growth performance in nursery pigs.