Feed efficiency in swine / / edited by John F. Patience.

• Superior document: Phaenomenologica ; v.206
• HerausgeberIn: Patience, John F.
• Place / Publishing House: Wageningen : : Wageningen Academic Publishers :, Imprint: Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2012.
• Language: English
• Series: Phaenomenologica
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

'Feed efficiency in swine' has been prepared as a comprehensive treatise on the current state of our understanding of this topic which is so important to the pork industry. Each chapter is written by international authorities who understand both the science and application of their topic a...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Herd management factors that influence whole herd feed efficiency; A.M. Gaines et al
• 2. Feeding and barn management strategies that maximize feed efficiency; M.D. Tokach et al
• 3. Liquid feeding corn-based diets to growing pigs: practical considerations and use of co-products; C.F.M. de Lange, C.H. Zhu
• 4. Amino acid nutrition and feed efficiency; C.F.M. de Lange et al
• 5. The influence of dietary energy on feed efficiency in grow-finish swine; J.F. Patience
• 6. Feed processing to maximize feed efficiency; C.R. Stark
• 7. The genetic and biological basis of residual feed intake as a measure of feed efficiency; J.M. Young, J.C.M. Dekkers
• 8. Pig breeding for improved feed efficiency; P.W. Knap, L. Wang
• 9. Effect of climatic environment on feed efficiency in swine; D. Renaudeau et al
• 10. Fueling the immune response: what’s the cost?; R.W. Johnson
• 11. Influence of health on feed efficiency; S.S. Dritz
• 12. Physiology of feed efficiency in the pig: emphasis on the gastrointestinal tract and specific dietary examples; J.R. Pluske
• 13. Emerging technologies with the potential to improve feed efficiency in swine; F.R. Dunshea.