Great paper published by Kansas State University in Animal Frontiers in outlining some of nutritional and management strategies used to slow down pig growth when required for welfare purposes. Click here to view the article.
Summary
Nutritional
- – Remove all growth-promoting feed additives
- – Reduce dietary energy
- – Reduce dietary electrolyte balance
- – Altered amino acid balance (branch chain amino acids, excessive DL-methionine)
- – Deficiency of amino acids (widely used during 2020 COVID-19 pandemic)
Management
- – Reducing floor space
- – Increasing barn temperature
- – Restricting feed access
- – Reduced water access (not recommended)
