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post-weaning

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post-weaning
pertaining to the period of about 2 weeks after weaning. Relates to the dam or the offspring.

post-weaning anestrus
a problem in sows. See anestrus.
post-weaning diarrhea
a cause of serious losses in young pigs during the first 2 weeks after weaning; a form of coliform gastroenteritis.
post-weaning Escherichia coli diarrhea
see coliform gastroenteritis.
post-weaning growth check
the sudden slowing of weight gain in piglets when they change from sow's milk to prepared grain rations.


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While the aim is to give an overview of the main factors affecting feed intake in pigs, such as nutritional status, energy balance, and amino acid and protein metabolism, special emphasis has been given to those factors that have received little attention in the past, such as the role of peripheral sensing, and perinatal and post-weaning events that determine feeding behavior in later life.
Some farmers have lost up to 60 per cent of young stock from the disease, Post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome was identified in Canada ten years ago and arrived from France.
Considered were: cow traits (age at puberty, conception rate, milking ability and mature size), calf traits (pre-weaning growth and post-weaning growth), optimum slaughter weight, carcass (cutability, marbling and tenderness), and bull traits (fertility, freedom from genital defects and sire effect on calving ease).
 
 
 
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