Sentence examples for older pig from inspiring English sources

Despite the reduced FCE in an older pig, its ADG is still higher because it consumes a higher amount of feed than the younger pig.

(I now know that you should never pen a young pig with an unrelated older pig).

The disease was first observed in older pigs and spread within 2 3 days to younger pigs.

Limited studies have been carried out on relatively older pigs (aged 2 years or more).

Younger, approximately 20-day-old, pigs showed better avoidance learning (crossing the barrier) than older pigs, and heavier pigs were better learners than lighter pigs of the same age.

Moreover, we have observed important differences in hSNP estimates obtained in 45 days and 190 days-old pigs (in general, older pigs have higher values), as shown at Table  1 and Additional file 1: Figure S1.

Swine dysentery is usually a disease of growing pigs (15 70 kg), but may occur in older pigs, and rarely in suckling piglets [ 20].

The lowest rate (6.9%) was observed in piglets younger than 4 weeks old, whereas the rate reached 48.1% in older pigs [ 1].

In Norway these conditions usually affect older pigs, and they have become less frequent after Se supplementation was introduced in 1980 [ 24].

Reasons for an association are more likely respiratory disease in older pigs of the same herd, which demand for vaccination against potential initiators like PCV2.

This suggests fadeout of virus from the herd, since older pigs are more likely to have been present in the herd when virus was circulating.