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Sub-optimal growth performance in pigs under low sanitary conditions can be partly compensated by adjustments of the diet
- Growing-finishing pigs kept under low sanitary conditions (LSC) eat and grow less than pigs kept under high sanitary conditions (HSC). Researchers at... -
Kelly Nichols receives Pieter Walstra Award
- Research scientist Kelly Nichols of Wageningen University & Research has won the Pieter Walstra Award. The purpose of this prestigious award is to... -
How zinc influences gut health and immune competence of pigs
- High concentration of zinc (as zinc oxide) in diets in the post-weaning period of piglets potentially modulate the animal’s intestinal... -
Harvesting of four years Breed&Feed4Food
- On December 6th 2018 more than 50 persons participated in a meeting in Wageningen where highlights and results of 4 years Breed&Feed4Food were... -
Starch rich lactation diet improves recovery of lactating sows that are pregnant
- Sows that are both gestating and lactating during a 6-week lactation period should be fed on a high feeding level. To reduce the loss of body weight,... -
Collaboration of feeding and breeding offers added value
- In ‘Breed meets Feed’ feeding and breeding experts of the programmes Feed4Foodure, Breed@Feed4Food and Breed4Food met for the first time.... -
Cycle Test stimulates dialogue on closing the food cycle
- Achieving sustainable agriculture and livestock farming requires closing the nutrient cycle, which in turn demands measures in policy and practice.... -
Successful Feed4Foodure Study Afternoon on Low Emission Livestock Feed
- On March 2, over 50 participants attended a Feed4Foodure Study Afternoon on the project ‘Low Emission Livestock Feed’ in Wageningen, the... -
How to improve phosphorus efficiency in dairy cattle
- The outline of the new legislation on “phosphate rights” for the Dutch dairy sector has just been finalized recently: the phosphate... -
Higher available phosphorus requirements determined in young male broilers
- Wageningen UR Livestock Research conducted a doses-response study to determine the available P (aP) requirement of Ross 308 male broilers. Birds...
