Sentence examples for weaning date from inspiring English sources

Farmers often postpone the weaning date, when piglets are not heavy enough.

Management groups for weaning weights included the flock, year, season of birth, weaning date, sex of the lamb (ewe, ram, or wether (i.e. castrated male sheep)), and a producer-defined management code in accord with LAMBPLAN protocols [ 6].

The ability of a given female to extend her pre-implantation foraging trip, however, is limited by her need to implant in time to give birth during the breeding season and is impacted by her weaning date the previous year.

The choice of setting the culling date at 28 days after the last farrowing for sows with incomplete weaning date was based on the average nursing period in the whole dataset.

We assumed that culling took place either at the last weaning of the sow or 28 days after the last farrowing if the number of weaned piglets was known, but if both weaning date and number of weaned piglets were missing, culling date was set one day after the last farrowing.

Ozgul et al. (2010) report a 5.6-day advance in weaning date of yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) in Colorado, USA over a 33-year period (0.17 day year−1), but they do not establish a link between these changes and climate.

For yellow-bellied marmots, while there has been large advances in emergence date (23 days), breeding date (as measured by weaning dates) advanced by 5.6 days only (Ozgul et al. 2010).

Program completion was determined as follows: for replacement-fed infants, an HIV-negative HIV DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test after 6 weeks of age was required; for breastfed infants, an HIV-negative test 6 weeks after the wean date was required, and, if no wean date was available, either two negative tests or one negative test after 15 months of age was required.

The patients' demographics, indications for intubation and PDT, early and late complications, date weaned off the ventilator, date of decannulation, discharge from ICU and hospital, and outcome of these patients in the hospital were noted.

Pairs were sighted daily throughout the lactation period to ensure that the female and pup were still together and to obtain an accurate date of weaning.

These two options were proposed free of charge including a controlled distribution of local powdered infant formula (one box at each follow-up visit) from birth or the date of weaning until nine months of age.