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| Provedor de dados: |
Organic Eprints
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| País: |
Germany
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| Título: |
A study on four feeding strategies of 100% organic origin for piglets concerning performance, health status, losses and economy in organic agriculture
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| Autores: |
Weißmann, Friedrich
Bussemas, Ralf
Falk, Anna
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| Data: |
2012-09-12
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| Ano: |
2012
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| Palavras-chave: |
Animal husbandry
Feeding and growth
Pigs
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| Resumo: |
Organic agriculture is defined as a low-external-input-system but piglets’ necessity for high quality diets seems to contradict low-external-input feeding strategies. Hence, a total of 361 piglets was tested from day 14 – 63 post natum concerning performance, health status, losses and diet costs by means of four feeding strategies of 100% organic origin: (i) high-external-input diet, (ii) medium-external-input diet, (iii) lowexternal-input diet, each with grass-clover-silage as roughage source, and (iv) above mentioned low-external-input diet with straw replacing grass-clover-silage. The highexternal-input-diet achieved the significantly highest live weight gain; all other strategies were similar at a lower level. There were no differences in health status and loss rates between the four strategies. Low-input-strategies were economical at best in producing a standardized 20 kg piglet. A verification of the results is necessary with a higher number of piglets for a final recommendation.
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Conference paper, poster, etc.
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| Identificador: |
http://orgprints.org/24630/1/weissmann_feeding-strategies_paper_1.pdf
Weißmann, Friedrich; Bussemas, Ralf and Falk, Anna (2012) A study on four feeding strategies of 100% organic origin for piglets concerning performance, health status, losses and economy in organic agriculture. In: Rahmann, Gerold and Godinho, Denise (Eds.) Tackling the Future Challenges of Organic Animal Husbandry, Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, pp. 288-290.
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| Editor: |
Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries
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| Relação: |
http://orgprints.org/24630/
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application/pdf
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