Perspectives In Pig Science
Perspectives In Pig Science
Author(s): Edited by J Wiseman, MA Varley and B KempFollowing the success of Principles of Pig Science and Progress in Pig Science, this year sees the publication of a third title covering a broad range of topics of critical importance to pig scientists and producers.
Perspectives in Pig Science features a collection of papers by some of the world's leading authorities in five key areas: breeding and genetics; management, marketing and meat quality; health and welfare; reproduction and reproductive management; nutrition.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: May 2003
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Extent: 536 pp.
ISBN: 1-897676-19-0
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- Introduction
- Current status of the global pig industry
- Genetic selection for litter size and neonatal / pre-weaning survival
- Genotype environment interactions
- Prospectives in pig genetics
- Pig meat production markets
- Integrated planning for future developments in pig businesses
- Developments of organic pig production systems
- Nutritional management of integrated pig units , raw materials, formulations,feed distribution
- Biochemical basis for meat quality
- Immunological aspects of Post-Weaning
- Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome
- Welfare of the Neonate
- Environmental issues in the newly-weaned piglet
- Coping strategies in group-housed animals
- Strategies for the control of on-farm epidemics
- Insemination strategies
- Placental development, efficiency and embryonic mortality
- Physiological developments in the gilt
- Lifetime performance of the sow
- Nutritional influences on gut physiology post- weaning
- Control of food intake in pigs and its relation to health
- Transition feeding systems postweaning
- Nutritional modelling in large scale commercial units
- Nutritional influences of fibre on growth
- Index
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