Pig breeding

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2014

Author team: V. M. Voloshchuk, V. P. Rybalko, M. D. Berezovskyi, O. I. Kostenko, V. O. Ivanov, L. O. Ivanova, L. I. Podobed. V. M. Nagaevich, I. M. Ksionz, V. V. Zamykula, A. M. Shostia, K. F. Pocherniaev, P. A. Vashchenko, I. B. Bankovska, M. G. Povod, O. F. Sahlo.

Reviewers:

Yu. V. Zasukha - doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, head of the department of technologies, economics and management in animal husbandry of the National University of Bioresources and Nature Management of Ukraine;

V. M. Turinskyi - doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, director of the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Aquaculture of the National Institute of Biodiversity of Ukraine;

A. A. Polishchuk - doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, dean of the faculty of technology of production and processing of animal husbandry products of the Poltava State Agrarian Academy.

Pig farming: a monograph / for the science. ed. V. M. Voloshchuk. - K.: Agrarian. Nauka, 2014. – 592 p.

ISBN978-966-540-385-2

Recommended for publication by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Pig Breeding and Agro-Industrial Production of the National Academy of Sciences on March 25, 2014 (protocol No. 2)

Brief information: The main issues of the Ukrainian pig industry are highlighted: its formation, current state, development prospects, biological features of pigs, pork production technologies, technological equipment for keeping and feeding pigs. Much attention is paid to the development of design-technological and volume-planning solutions for new pig farms and complexes. The principles and design-technological solutions for the reconstruction of various types of pig farms are substantiated and developed. Features of pasture-camp keeping of pigs are presented. Breeding processes, methods of selection, genetics, breeding and reproduction of pig populations are covered in detail. The characteristics of feed and feed additives, the peculiarities of feeding different age and production groups of pigs, the quality of meat and fat products and the factors that determine it are given in detail, as well as the requirements for the veterinary and sanitary welfare of pig enterprises are presented.

It is intended for farm managers, industry technologists, specialists in pig breeding, feeding, maintenance, veterinary protection, scientists, graduate students and students who are interested in the problems of pig breeding development.