PVL's projects
How important is the choice of finishing boar for farm results? An IWT research project of KU Leuven and ILVO focuses on the breeding value estimation of finishing boars and tries to shed light on their economic importance. Thus, the finishing boar not only influences the performance of finishing pigs, but also the reproduction results.
Genotype-environment interactions in terminal bears Read More »
The high feed prices farmers face today are mainly due to the role that protein crops have taken in feed rations. Soybean meal is a very important raw material. However, soya is not grown in our regions, which makes transport drive up the cost price. The increasing demand for soy by developing
Protein blending: Alternative protein sources in the diet of fattening pigs Read More »
In het kader van dierenwelzijn komt chirurgische castratie steeds meer onder druk te staan. Dit heeft als gevolg dat er onderzoek naar alternatieven noodzakelijk is. Dit brengt ons bij het afmesten van immunocastraten dan wel intacte beren. In dit onderzoek is nagegaan in welke mate huisvesting een invloed heeft op de technische prestaties en het
Fattening of intact boars Read More »
The development of these web pages was done as part of the demonstration project 'Economic and technical key figures in the modern pig farm' for the Sustainable Agricultural Development Department of the Ministry of the Flemish Community. The project started on 1 October 2011 and ended on 31 December 2013. The objectives of this project were better valorisation/profitability of a pig farm
Economic and technical key figures in the modern pig farm Read More »
The Coordination Centre for Information and Guidance on Sustainable Fertilisation (CVBB) is a non-profit organisation established as one of the accompanying measures of MAP4. CVBB aims to inform and guide farmers on fertilisation. CVBB wants to contribute to better water quality to help achieve the objectives of the Flemish manure legislation. The
The main objective of this demonstration project was to demonstrate that a combination of protein-rich feeds with phase feeding can lead to higher use of the total share of home-grown protein-rich feeds, on the one hand, and a reduction in total protein input and nitrogen excretion in fattening pig production, on the other. This may reduce dependence on the
Multi-phase power supply Read More »
The increasing litter size in pig farming has greatly boosted reproductive performance in recent decades.However, increasing litter size has caused a decline in birth weight. The litter number has also increased so much that more piglets are regularly born than a sow has weaned. The number of piglets a sow has more than she
Possibilities of different sperm diluents in pig farming Artificial insemination has long been a well-known technique. Research into artificial insemination was first reported back in the 1400s. In the meantime, the principle has been regularly discussed in experiments on various animal species and even humans. Yet it took until the
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