Effect of lactating sows' diet supplemented with cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) on feed intake and reproductive and productive post-weaning performances
| Autor: | Héctor Eduardo Martínez-Flores, Juvenal Esquivel-Cordova, Rosa Elena Pérez-Sánchez, Gerardo Ordaz-Ochoa, Aureliano Juárez-Caratachea, Ruy Ortiz-Rodríguez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Litter (animal) Weight loss Animal feed Swine media_common.quotation_subject animal diseases Blood sugar Biology 03 medical and health sciences Eating Random Allocation Animal science Food Animals Estrus Pregnancy Lactation medicine Animals media_common Estrous cycle Reproduction 0402 animal and dairy science Opuntia 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences 040201 dairy & animal science Animal Feed Diet 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure Blood chemistry Feed Sow Hypophagia Animal Science and Zoology Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Female medicine.symptom Regular Articles |
| Zdroj: | Tropical Animal Health and Production |
| ISSN: | 1573-7438 |
| Popis: | The effect of cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) added to the diet of lactating (21 days of lactation) sows on voluntary feed intake, and its impact on the productive and reproductive post-weaning performance was evaluated. Data collected of 72 farrowings from 37 hybrid sows were analyzed during 12-month period. The sows were divided into two groups: (i) control group (CG; n = 18 sows), sows fed only with commercial feed, and (ii) experimental group (EG; n = 19 sows), sows fed with commercial feed plus cactus supplement. The variables evaluated were blood glucose (BG), daily feed intake (DFI) and total feed intake (TFI), loss of body weight (LBW), weaning-estrus interval (WEI), and subsequent litter size (SLS). Data analysis was carried out using fixed effects models. A nested effect was found for farrowing number (FN) into of group and an interaction group × season on the analyzed variables (P |
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