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Fang Wang, Xueliang Fu, Weijun Duan, Buyu Wang and Honghui Li
The utilization of ear tags for identifying breeding pigs is a widely used technique in the field of animal production. Ear tag dropout can lead to the loss of pig identity information, resulting in missing data and ambiguity in production management and...
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Sophie C. McKee, John J. Mayer and Stephanie A. Shwiff
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) cause damage to agricultural crops in their native range as well as in the portions of the globe where they have been introduced. In the US, states with the highest introduced wild pig populations are Alabama, Arkansas, California,...
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Shanghao Liu, Chunjiang Zhao, Hongming Zhang, Qifeng Li, Shuqin Li, Yini Chen, Ronghua Gao, Rong Wang and Xuwen Li
A clear understanding of the number of pigs plays a crucial role in breeding management. Computer vision technology possesses several advantages, as it is harmless and labour-saving compared to traditional counting methods. Nevertheless, the existing met...
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Zeyu Lu, Lingtian Zhang, Qing Mu, Junyang Liu, Yu Chen, Haoyuan Wang, Yanjun Zhang, Rui Su, Ruijun Wang, Zhiying Wang, Qi Lv, Zhihong Liu, Jiasen Liu, Yunhua Li and Yanhong Zhao
Due to recent innovations in gene editing technology, great progress has been made in livestock breeding, with researchers rearing gene-edited pigs, cattle, sheep, and other livestock. Gene-editing technology involves knocking in, knocking out, deleting,...
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Roberto Besteiro, Tamara Arango, Manuel R. Rodríguez and María D. Fernández
This study characterizes the growth of weaned Large White × Landrace hybrid piglets from 6 to 20 kg live body weight (BW) under real farm conditions. Batches of 50 castrated male pigs and 50 gilts were weighed repeatedly over two 6-week breeding cycles. ...
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Immaculada Argemí-Armengol, Marc Tor, Diego Bottegal, Maria A. Latorre, Beatriz Serrano-Pérez and Javier Álvarez-Rodríguez
Peas are an alternative to soybeans to supply protein in livestock feeds. Immunocastration avoids surgical castration of male pigs and increases fat deposition in female pigs. This work aimed to assess the effects of pea inclusion on the amount of fat an...
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Dandan Wang, Shengnan Wang, Wenjie Tian, Yuehui Ma and Lin Jiang
Transcription factor zinc-finger BED domain-containing protein 6 (ZBED6) is unique to placental mammals and regulates insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) expression, which lead to muscle growth. However, the effect of ZBED6 on the growth of spleen is sti...
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Gabriel Mihaila, Mihaela Habeanu, Nicoleta Lefter, Anca Gheorghe, Mihaela Dumitru, Iuliana Marin, Livia Vidu, Carmen Georgeta Nicolae, Dana Popa and Monica Marin
Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) is an annual legume tolerant to drought. Guar meal (GM) is a protein- and carbohydrate-rich co-product generated after the mechanical separation of the endosperm from the germ and hull of guar seed. GM has received consider...
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Andreas Melfsen, Arvid Lepsien, Jan Bosselmann, Agnes Koschmider and Eberhard Hartung
This study aimed to demonstrate the application of process mining on video data of pigs, facilitating the analysis of behavioral patterns. Video data were collected over a period of 5 days from a pig pen in a mechanically ventilated barn and used for ana...
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Fang Wang, Xueliang Fu, Weijun Duan, Buyu Wang and Honghui Li
As the unique identifier of individual breeding pigs, the loss of ear tags can result in the loss of breeding pigs? identity information, leading to data gaps and confusion in production and genetic breeding records, which can have catastrophic consequen...
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