Twenty four male castrated pigs, 45.95 kg of weight live, were used to determine the minimum fecal endogenous phosphorus losses, the rate of true absorption feed and the biological availability of various phosphate sources. A complete randomized block design, with six treatments and four replicates with one animal per experimental unit, was used. The diets were based on corn and soybean meal. The phosphorus supplement of the following sources were used: dicalcium (BIC); Tapira (TAP); Patos Minas (FPM); monoammonium (MAP) […]

An experiment was conducted with piglets allocated in eight treatments combinations with different types of diet (dry and wet), rations (with and without sweetener) and two types of drinking water (with and without sweetener), offered after weaning to study the effects on histology and intestine enzymatic development. Intestinal villi height, crypt depth, and relation between villi height and crypt depth of duodenum and jejunum, jejunum protein content and enzyme activity of maltase, sucrase and dipeptidase were evaluated. Thirty two Large […]

Forty-eight female pigs were used to determine tissue growth curves after slaughter of the animals at 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110 and 120 kg and dissection of the carcasses. The lean cuts in carcass were made according to that used by Brazilian pork slaughters. In each cut it were separated muscle, fat, bone and skin amounts. The expanded allometric function was used to estimate and to fit the growth curves. The muscle amounts in carcass increased to 41.9% […]

Data of Large White (LW), Landrace (LD) and Duroc (DU) swine were used to estimate the genetic trends for adjusted weight at 70-days old (AW70) in kg, average daily gain (ADG) in g and backfat thickness (BT) in cm. The genetic trends were estimated by regression of the averages of trait genetic values in function of the animal birth year. The estimates of the genetic trend for AW70 (LW = -0.22; LD = -0.24; DU = -0.57) were negative, possibly […]

Thirty-six ejaculates from three boars, equally diluted in the diluents Beltsville Thawing Solution (BTS), Modified Zorlesco (ZOR) and BTZOR (developed at Universidade Estadual de Maringá), were used to evaluate the characteristics of each ejaculate and the semen conservation period until 25% of progressive motility (PM) for each diluents. The experimental design was completely randomized blocks, blocking boar/month. The better conservation period was BTZOR (4.94±0.30 days), followed by ZOR (4.62±0.29 days) and BTS (3.27±0.30 days). Regression analyses showed a quadratic behavior […]

Large White (LW), Landrace (LD) and Duroc (DU) swine data were used to estimate the variance components for adjusted weight at 70-days of age (AW70), average daily gain (ADG) and backfat thickness (BT). The (co) variance components were estimated by the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method. These components were used to calculate the estimates of heritabilities; common litter effect; and genetic, common litter and residual correlations. The heritability values ranged from medium to high, indicating the possibility of genetic gains […]

An experiment was conducted with the objective to evaluate the effects of the induction of the drinking water with sweetener consumption in the nursery phase (10th to 30th day of age), on the performance of 270 piglets (male and females) submitted to segregated early weaned and its residual effects on their pre nursery (30th to 45th day) and nursery phases (45th to 62nd day) were evaluated. A completely randomized design in a 3 x 2 factorial arrangement with three treatments […]

With the objective to estimate genetic and phenotypic parameters of swine reproductive traits, litter weight at birth (PLN), litter weight at 21 days (PL21), litter size at birth (TLN), litter size at weaning (TLD) and mortality rate (TM) data of three swine breeds, Duroc, Landrace and Large White were used. The genetic and phenotypic (co)variances were estimated by Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) method. These components were used to estimate the direct (), maternal () and total () heritabilities, the common […]

Data of Duroc, Landrace and Large White swine were used to estimate genetic trends for maternal and direct genetic effects of litter size (TLN) and litter weight (PLN) born alive, litter size (TLD) and litter weight (PL21) at 21 days and mortality rate (TM). The genetic parameters were estimated by restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method. Estimated genetic direct and maternal trends were obtained by regressing genetic values averages on dam birth year. Estimated genetic direct trends showed no progress or […]

The experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of the use of whole fermented soybean (WFS), whole extruded soybean (WES) and soybean meal (SBM) in replacement to the dried milk (MD) of the diet on the performance, feed intake and morphological alterations on the digestive system of piglets from 14 to 35 day and from 14 to 56 days, and its residual effects from 36 to 56 days of age. Ninety-six crossbreed (Landrace x Large White) piglets weaned at […]