Effect of Housing Management Interventions on Microenvironment, Growth, Physiological and Serum Biochemical Parameters of Large White Yorkshire Crossbred Weaner Pigs in Summer
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Average daily gain, Large White Yorkshire, Physiological parameters, , SGOT,, SGPT,Abstract
The present study was carried out during summer season at the centre of All India Coordinated Research Project on pigs in Tirupati (India) on 24 Large White Yorkshire crossbred weaner pigs of 8 weeks of age and 9-10 kg of body weight, which were randomly divided into four groups (I, II, III and IV) of six animals each (3 males and 3 females). The Group-I was taken as control, Group-II was provided with fan for cooling, Group-III was provided with water splashing over the body, and Group-IV was provided with wet gunny bags around the pen. The study revealed that the housing management interventions had significant effect on all aspects studied. Among the four experimental groups, the Group III (water splashing) had shown the lowest values of temperature-humidity index (78.85±0.13), physiological parameters such as rectal temperature (101.7±0.03 oF), respiration rate (38.17±0.86 breaths/min) and pulse rate (70.36±0.19 beats/min), serum biochemical parameters such as SGOT (55.34±1.38 IU/L) and SGPT (32.67±0.78 IU/L), and the highest values of growth parameters such as final body weight (34.76±0.11 kg) and overall Average Daily Gain (0.28±0.00 kg/day). From the results, it was concluded that splashing water over the animal body proved to be a more effective cooling practice for providing better microenvironment and maintaining better growth performance, as well as normal physiological and biochemical functions in the body, among the housing management practices examined.
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