Improving animal feed efficiency to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GGE) is part of the support to be granted under the new Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan for Portugal. Pig producers do not have many alternatives to reduce the carbon footprint impact of their pork as the Feed Industry (FI) that supplies them still buys low-cost ingredients from the world market without considering their environmenta...
This study investigates the influence of sex and a dietary transition on the gut microbiota of a local Portuguese pig breed. Three groups of male Alentejano pigs (n = 10 each) were raised between ~40 and 160 kg LW. Group C included pigs that were surgically castrated, while the I group included intact ones; both were fed with commercial diets. The third group, IExp, included intact pigs that were fed commercial...
Este estudo visou avaliar em suínos Alentejanos (AL) os efeitos do sexo (animais castrados vs. inteiros) e de uma dieta de engorda rica em fibra no crescimento e qualidade da carcaça e gordura. Esta dieta experimental, com leguminosas produzidas localmente e subprodutos agroindustriais, tinha como finalidade reduzir os compostos causadores do sabor e odor a varrasco (“boar taint”) em machos inteiros. Usaram-se ...
A alimentação de suínos tem um custo significativo, mas para garantir a sustentabilidade da produção, há também que diminuir o impacte ambiental e promover a saúde. A formulação de um alimento composto (AC) é complexa. Neste trabalho pretendemos não só adequar as necessidades à disponibilidade de nutrientes, como minimizar custos e impacto ambiental. Recorremos à programação linear para encontrar um AC otimizad...
Thirty male pigs of the Portuguese Alentejano (AL) breed raised outdoors with ad libitum water and feed were used to test the effects of a new high soluble dietary fibre feed on animal performance and carcass traits. From 40 to 130kg body weight, surgically castrated (group C) and intact pigs (groups I and IE) were fed with commercial feeds. From 130kg until slaughter (160kg), groups C and I ate a commercial di...
This work, within the framework of ECO-PIG Project, measured the effects of a high soluble dietary fibre feed on blood biochemistry parameters in outdoor raised Portuguese Alentejano (AL) male pigs (n=30) with access to ad libitum water and feed. Surgically castrated (group C) and intact pigs (groups I and IE) were fed commercial diets from 40 to 130kg body weight. From 130 until 160kg (slaughter), groups C and...
Thirty male pigs of the Portuguese Alentejano (AL) breed raised outdoors with ad libitum water and feed were used to test the effects of a new high soluble dietary fibre feed on animal performance and carcass traits. From 40 to 130kg body weight, surgically castrated (group C) and intact pigs (groups I and IE) were fed with commercial feeds. From 130kg until slaughter (160kg), groups C and I ate a commercial di...
O ECO-PIG é um projeto de I&D empresarial em co-promoção, para territórios do interior. É liderado pela DIN - Desenvolvimento e Inovação Nutricional, SA e envolve outro parceiro empresarial, as Rações Santiago Lda., para além de dois parceiros científicos, a Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra e a Universidade de Évora. O ECO-PIG pretende valorizar as carcaças de suínos machos inteiros das raças Alentejana (AL) ...
This work, included in the framework of the ECO-PIG Project, aims to reveal the differences in the backfat transcriptome of 30 male Alentejano pigs (AL) raised outdoors and divided equally into surgically castrated (C), intact (I) and intact pigs consuming an experimental diet (IE). These animals were fed ad libitum with commercial diets from 40 to 130 kg body weight. From 130 to 160 kg (slaughter weight) C and...
O ECO-PIG é um projeto de I&D empresarial em co-promoção, para territórios do interior. É liderado pela DIN - Desenvolvimento e Inovação Nutricional, SA e envolve outro parceiro empresarial, as Rações Santiago Lda., para além de dois parceiros científicos, a Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra e a Universidade de Évora. O ECO-PIG pretende valorizar as carcaças de suínos machos inteiros das raças Alentejana (AL) ...