Effect of Early Weaning, Split-Weaning and Nursery Feeding Programmes on the Growth of Landrace×Desi Pigs

Abraham, John; Chhabra, Aruna

doi:10.1023/b:trop.0000040933.28759.1c

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“…Similar findings in support of split weaning have been reported by many workers around the world. Abraham et al (2004b) also reported 21% improvement in ADG in split-weaning of lighter half in combination with special nutrient diet from day 28 to day 140 compared to conventional weaning and of 36% compared 'to early weaning at day 28. Superior weight gain in lighter piglets of T ESL sub-group indicates that growth of light-weight pigs was suppressed in a large litter owing to the dominance hierarchy resulting in lower availability of milk for lighter piglets.…”

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Effect of weight and age based split weaning on growth performances and welfare of Large White Yorkshire piglets

Sandhu

Malik

Chandrahas

et al. 2017

IJAR

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With an objective to minimize the weaning stress and to maximize the welfare, early weaning was combined with split weaning in 41 piglets of Large White Yorkshire (LWY). Weaning method was either "Weight Based Early or Split Weaning" i.e. T ES or "Conventional Weaning" i.e. T C and treated as control. The weaning age in T C was 56 days. In T ES, heavier (> 1.5 kg) medium weighing (1.0-1.5 kg) and lighter (< 1.0 kg) piglets were weaned at 30 (T ESH ), 37 days (T ESM ) and 42 days (T ESL ), respectively. Different records pertaining to body weight, feed consumption, haematological profiles etc. were collected up to 120 days. At the end of the study period, body weight of piglets was almost equal in both groups. The overall ADG at the end of study period was almost equal in all three sub-groups and in control. FCR of piglets under split and conventional weaning groups was significantly better (P<0.05) in T ESH than Tc group, both during pre-and postweaning period. The PCV (%) and TLC value under different sub-groups of split-weaned piglets were almost similar to different sub-groups of conventionally weaned piglets and were within normal range. There were significant differences among haemoglobin level among different sub-group of T ES and Tc and it was within the range of normal reference value. From the present study it can be concluded that split weaned piglets performed almost equally to conventionally weaned piglets.

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Effect of weight and age based split weaning on growth performances and welfare of Large White Yorkshire piglets

Sandhu

Malik

Chandrahas

et al. 2017

IJAR

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Effects of timing of grouping and split-weaning on growth performance and behaviour of piglets in a multi-suckling system

Tang

Gerrits

Soede

et al. 2023

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

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Weaning age and post-weaning nursery feeding regime are important in improving the performance of lightweight pigs

Hüting

Wellock

Tuer³

et al. 2019

Journal of Animal Science

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The aim was to investigate the effect of weaning age, weaning weight, and nursery feeding regime on post-weaning performance. The focus was on pigs weaned light, as they may be better off when weaned at a later age and/or offered a specialist nursery feeding regime. Piglets (n = 1,448) from one farrowing batch of 110 sows that farrowed over 2 wk were individually weighed and their morphometric measurements were taken at birth. Pigs were weaned on the same day, but variation in birth date resulted in variable weaning ages (mean age day 34.1, SD = 2.5). The youngest 50% at weaning were classified Y and the oldest 50% as O; within an age class, the lightest 50% were classified L, the heaviest 50% as H, and housed accordingly. Pigs were individually weighed at weaning, 7 and 15 wk post-weaning. At weaning, Y were 6 d younger and 1.4 kg lighter than O pigs, whereas L were 3.2 kg lighter than H pigs. Pigs were randomly allocated to a 3-stage superior (SUP) or control (CON) nursery feeding regime, with SUP pigs having a 65% greater allowance (on a kg/pig basis) of the first and second stage feeds than the CON. Pigs weaned Y had a higher mortality rate from weaning to 7 wk post-weaning than pigs weaned O (9.14% vs. 4.98%; P = 0.046). As expected, age and weight significantly (P < 0.001) affected performance to both 7 and 15 wk post-weaning: at 15-wk pigs weaned Y were 5.5 kg lighter than pigs weaned O; pigs weaned L were 9.0 kg lighter than H pigs. It was estimated that pigs weaned YL needed ~4 d more (P = 0.018) to reach 60 kg BW than pigs weaned OL. Feed intake was not affected by feeding regime, age and weight, or their interactions. Performance was not affected by feeding regime (P > 0.05), but was affected by the weight × feeding regime interaction (P = 0.044) to 7 wk post-weaning: L pigs on SUP were 1.2 kg heavier than L pigs on the CON regime; this was not the case for the H pigs. Performance up to 7 wk post-weaning was positively associated with birth weight to cranial circumference ratio and weaning weight (P < 0.05) for both YL and OL pigs; for the latter, additional performance predictors were weaning age (P = 0.044) and feeding (P = 0.027). Improved growth for L pigs up to 7 wk post-weaning could be obtained by a greater allowance of the nursery diets. However, weaning at a later age benefitted the performance of L pigs to a common BW, suggesting that this might be a strategy with longer term benefits.

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Effect of Early Weaning, Split-Weaning and Nursery Feeding Programmes on the Growth of Landrace×Desi Pigs

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Effect of weight and age based split weaning on growth performances and welfare of Large White Yorkshire piglets

Effect of weight and age based split weaning on growth performances and welfare of Large White Yorkshire piglets

Effects of timing of grouping and split-weaning on growth performance and behaviour of piglets in a multi-suckling system

Weaning age and post-weaning nursery feeding regime are important in improving the performance of lightweight pigs

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