Early pig growth and lifetime performance - Dr. Sadie Douglas

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“There are a number of different strategies available to benefit these slow growing pigs that we identify early on. It should be a combined strategy rather than one particular intervention. You should be focusing on these pigs at several different points during their early life, in order to get the best of catching up.” – Dr. Sadie Douglas

What you will learn:

- The top 3 lessons from all her research;

- The most important risk factors associated with poor lifetime growth performance;

- Thoughts on variability;

- Thoughts on compensatory growth;

- What can producers implement based on her studies;

- Thoughts on cross-fostering.

Sadie’s favorite swine-related book: Science and Practice of Pig Production

Sadie’s favorite book in general: Wolf of the Plains

Our guest is Dr. Sadie Douglas. Dr. Douglas completed her MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases in Animals in 2009 and before that a BSc in Bioveterinary Science, both at the Royal Veterinary College, London. She also took a Ph.D. on the management and nutrition of lightweight pigs at Newcastle University.

This episode was published by Lauro Faccin & Laihane Almeida.