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Bone densitometry: an agronomic performance assessment tool for sustainable pig and poultry production

December 2020 to May 2022

Laetitia Cloutier, Agr., M.Sc.
Responsible - Feeding and Animal Nutrition

Phone: 418 650-2440 ext. 4352
Cell.: 418 609-0320
Email: lcloutier@cdpq.ca
Objectives

Disseminate and promote the advantages of the tool for estimating the fat, lean and mineral composition of pigs, chickens and eggs using a bone densitometer and prediction equations developed by Université Laval to transform its components into nutrients of interest that are proteins, lipids, calcium and phosphorus.
Applicant
Centre de développement du porc du Québec inc.
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Web link(s)
All project documents are available on the Monogastric Nutrition Research Transfer Center website at the following address (in French):
monogastriques.fsaa.ulaval.ca/diffusion-et-vulgarisation/osteodensitometre/
Collaborators
CRSAD; Université Laval
Funding
This project is funded through the Innov'Action agroalimentaire Program, under the Canadian Partnership for Agriculture, an agreement between the governments of Canada and Quebec, Université Laval, CRSAD and le Centre de développement du Porc du Québec.
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