In vivo experiments with pigs
Experimental facilities for contract research and academic experiments
Facilities
- 32 pens with 6 weaned piglets each
- dry feeders suited for meal, pellets and crumble
- administering additives in both feed and water
- multi-phase feeding system
- auxiliary feed mixers with a capacity of 25, 250 and 500 kg
- controlled room temperature
- connected climate sensors and camera’s
- collaboration with a commercial farm (sows, weaner pigs and grower-finisher pigs) for large scale field trials
Research focus
Animal performance
- evaluation of growth
- feed and water intake
- feed efficiency
- weaning stress response
Field trials
- sow prolificacy and lactation efficiency
- farrowing duration and colostrum intake
- piglet milk replacer and creep feed intake
- carcass weight and lean meat percentage
And more
- digestive kinetics
- nutrient digestibility
- gut health
- diarrhea incidence