Recently added articles from Professional Animal Scientist:
Opinions of Those in Cattle, Swine, and Sheep Slaughtering and Rendering Sectors Regarding Aspects of the National Animal Identification System1
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Opinions of those in the cattle, swine, and sheep slaughtering and rendering sectors were characterized regarding aspects of the National Animal Identification System. Across plants of all size categories, operators of 51, 46, 65, and 22% of cattle, swine, and sheep slaughtering ...
Evaluation of Alternative Methods to Analyze Pig Body Weight Data from Animal Sorting Technologies
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Methods to analyze pig BW data collected by an animal sorting technology scale without individual pig identification were evaluated. Data were obtained from 5 grow-finishing groups of pigs from a commercial producer. The daily BW data were ranked and sorted into 3 alternative ...
Development of a Stochastic Model of Pig Growth to Evaluate the Impact of Birth and Twenty-One-Day Body Weight and Potential Sorting Strategies on the Body Composition Growth and Lysine Requirements of Pigs
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT A stochastic pig growth model was developed to reproduce the nonlinear relationships between birth, weaning, and nursery-exit weights to later grow-finish BW, body composition, and Lys requirements. Serial grow-finish BW measurements of barrows and gilts were fitted to mixed ...
Growth Performance and Carcass Composition of Pigs Fed Corn Grain from DAS-01507-1 (Herculex I) Hybrids1
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT The objective of this experiment was to evaluate a transgenic source of corn grain containing the event DAS-01507-1 (TC1507) when included in diets fed to growing and finishing pigs. The commercial product trait name of TC1507 corn is Herculex I; this corn grain contains the ...
Effects of Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles and Gromega on Fat and Meat Quality from Sows
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Feeding different levels of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) to sows may affect the fatty acid profile and quality of final sausage products such as bratwurst. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in quality of bratwurst made from sows fed ...