Abstract
We tested the effects of feeding 4 or 7.4 lb of a complete gestation diet to gilts during days 0 to 2 or 3 to 10 after first detected estrus (day 0) and mating. There was a tendency (P = .11) for the 7.4 lb/day treatment to increase litter size when fed from day 0 to 2 and to decrease (P = .17) litter size when fed from day 3 to 10. Gilts artificially inseminated at puberty farrowed fewer (P<.05) pigs than gilts inseminated at a second or later estrus.; Swine Day, Manhattan, KS, November 17, 1988
Keywords: Swine day, 1988, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution, no. 88-149-S, Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service), 556, Swine, Feeding level, Flushing, Embryo survival, Litter traits, Fertility
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Davis, D. L., Zhang, Z. & Stevenson, J. S., (1988) “Litter traits for gilts fed 4 or 7.4 lb feed during the first ten days after breeding”, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports 1(10), 22-25. doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.6270
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