Source: Daniel Azevedo, Pig Progress, 10 July 2021, photo credit: Pig Progress, Paulo Henrique Reis Furtado Campos
A group of researchers has shown that the Brazilian native purebred Piau pig maintains its feed conversion and has a lower reduction of feed intake under heat stress conditions.
That was the conclusion of a study conducted by Brazilian researchers attached to the Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri and the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, both in Minas Gerais state.
The study was recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Thermal Biology and compared this breed’s performance under different environmental circumstances.
Goal was to understand how the Piau adult animals manage to adapt to high temperatures. This feature is important to learn more about the mitigation of negative effects of heat stress on pig welfare, physiology and performance.
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