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Effect of feeding starter mixed feed to suckling pigs on their reproductive qualities

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Feeding starter mixed feed to piglets from age 7 to 60 days reduced the age of the first mating and number of unfertilized replacement gilts, increased the number of piglets born alive and piglet birth weight, increased the volume of ejaculate and sperm number of boars, and reduced the number of pathological and immature sperm.

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  1. Vavilov State Agrarian University, Saratov, 410012, Russia

    A. A. Vasil’ev & A. P. Korobov

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  1. A. A. Vasil’ev
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Vasil’ev, A.P. Korobov, 2010, published in Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Sel’skokhozyaistvennykh Nauk, 2010, No. 2, pp. 38–40.

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Vasil’ev, A.A., Korobov, A.P. Effect of feeding starter mixed feed to suckling pigs on their reproductive qualities. Russ. Agricult. Sci. 36, 122–124 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068367410020138

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