Effect of Feed Quality and Composition on Pig Production, Physiological and Health Parameters
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 70
Special Issue Editor
Interests: feeding strategies; animal product quality; environmental impact mitigation
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Dear Colleagues,
Swine is a domesticated omnivorous species widely used for multiple food production purposes, including fresh pork, cooked and cured products, and other products, including for its use as a model for biomedical research. However, the increase in the human population and a growing demand for pork is leading to a feed–food competition that threatens the pig production sector. Furthermore, pig production is also challenged by societal demands for animal welfare, food security, and healthier meat products, together with improved environmental impacts and climate change mitigation. We are pleased to invite you to submit original research articles and reviews on the evaluation of innovative feedstuffs and feed additives and/or feeding strategies that are tailored to the nutrient requirements of the pigs. More precisely, with regard to improving animal health, wellbeing, and pork quality, we are interested in works regardless of pig type (adult sows, boars, lactating and nursery piglets, and growing-finishing pigs), across a wide range of genetic types, and which are raised to meet very different target bodyweights worldwide.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Javier Álvarez-Rodríguez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- swine
- nutrient requirements
- feedstuffs
- feed additives
- performance
- health
- environment
- meat quality
