Recent advances in sow nutrition Recentes avanços na nutrição de porcas
Sows produce a larger number of fetuses than before and these fetuses possess genetic potentials to grow faster than before. Recent comparison shows that a porcine fetus is 40% heavier than 40 years ago. Thus the nutritional management of sows has been updated to reflect these genetic changes. Our r...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
2010-07-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982010001300033 |