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[Experimental studies on a decrease in hypotrophy in newborn piglets in commercial swine raising].

Abstract

The birth of hypotrophic piglets with 2-3 times lower live weight than the normally born ones, which die till the 40th hour, because of the abruptly decreased vitality is described. Their percent is 7 for the reproductive bases and 10 for a commodity swine breeding complex. Studies were carried out on 402 pregnant pigs, treated with protein hydrolysate and glucose (injected) together with vitamin-mineral additions to the forage. For a control were used 395 pregnant pigs under the same conditions, but not treated with the above mentioned medicines. A two fold decrease of the birth of hypotrophic piglets was achieved. The rest of the pigs are with a higher live weight and vitality which is the reason of their suffering from coli bacteriosis and other diseases of the conditions at a considerably lower extent. It is supposed that the irreplaceable (limited) amino acids are at the base of that biological phenomena for the prophylaxis of the hypotrophy in the pathology of the hybrid industrial swine breeding. That model scheme as a method can be realized in reproductive and nuclear bases for hybrid swine breeding because of its undeniably great and economic effect.

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N Gavrilov, I Mikhalkov, V Mladenova, T Petkov. 1987. [Experimental studies on a decrease in hypotrophy in newborn piglets in commercial swine raising].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3450080/

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