Sentence examples for pig performance from inspiring English sources

Breed did not influence pig performance but had a significant effect on pork quality.

There were significant interactions between starter diet allowance and finishing diet on finishing pig performance.

Pig performance and carcass characteristics were not affected by dietary treatment (P≥0.05).

This study aimed to determine the effects of weaning age and postweaning feeding programme on pig performance and health.

In summary, the inclusion of pea protein concentrate and fullfat soya bean in the diet reduces pig performance from 26 to 36 days of age.

The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of feed form (meal or pellets) and dietary particle size profile (fine or coarse) in a 2×2 factorial design on finishing pig performance and nutrient digestibility.

The reduction of particle size of feed improves pigs' performance due to increased specific surface of feed particles allowing better contact with digestive enzymes.

No effects of the replacement levels were observed in the weanling pigs' performance, organ morphometry or in their occurrence of diarrhea.

However, because of the energy imbalance of the ration (high fibre) the pigs' performance was poor.

In a spatial holeboard discrimination task, Arts et al. (2009) showed that mild mixing stress did not influence pigs' performance.

A random regression model for daily feed intake and a conventional multiple trait animal model for the four traits average daily gain on test (ADG), feed conversion ratio (FCR), carcass lean content and meat quality index were combined to analyse data from 1 449 castrated male Large White pigs performance tested in two French central testing stations in 1997.