• The Behavior and Welfare of Pigs Selected For Lean Growth - 2000 Swine Day Presentation
• Characteristics of Genotypes for Profitable High Health Status Pork Production
• Comparison of Fat-Free Lean Versus Lipid-Free Soft Tissue Growth
• Concepts of Pig Growth and Composition
• Lysine Requirements While Feeding Paylean - 2000 Swine Day Presentation
• Modeling Genetic and Environmental Effects on Pig Lean Growth
• Potential Means to Reduce Biases in Estimating Carcass Value
• Prediction of Daily Protein Accretion in Pigs from Estimates of Fat-Free Lean Gain
• Using Growth and Feed Intake Data to Improve the Efficiency of Lean Pork Production

Purdue Extension Publications

• AS-551-W Environmental Benefits of Paylean in Finisher Swine - An Example Based on Adoption in the United States

Purdue Swine Research Reports

2003 Swine Research Reports
• Analysis of pig growth from birth to sixty days of age (also in html)
• Effect of feeding a low nutrient excretion diet on growth performance and carcass characteristics of nursery, grower, and finisher pigs (also in html)
• Effect of feeding a reduced crude protein and reduced phosphorus diet on growth performance and carcass characteristics in grow-finish swine (also in html)
• Effects of supplemental pantothenic acid during all or part of the grow-finish period on growth performance and carcass composition (also in html)
• The effects of supplementing weanling pig diets with organic and inorganic acids on growth performance and microbial shedding (also in html)
• Evaluating growth and carcass characteristics of barrows fed a triglyceride form of conjugated linoleic acid (also in html)
• Evaluation of organic and inorganic acids in various feeding programs as alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters for nursery pigs (also in html)
• Growth performance of growing pigs fed crude protein-adequate or deficient, low phosphorus diets with graded levels of phytase (also in html)

2002 Swine Research Reports
• Alternative nonlinear mixed effects models for swine growth (also in html)
• Development of a model to predict the growth of pigs when increasing dietary levels of Paylean are fed (also in html)
• Development of a stochastic pig compositional growth model (also in html)
• Economic evaluation of ractopamine step-up programs using a biological growth model (also in html)
• Profitable use of ractopamine in hog production - economic evaluation using a pig growth model (also in html)
• Ractopamine treatment biases in the prediction of fat-free lean mass (also in html)
• Use of a stochastic model to evaluate alternate marketing strategies (also in html)

2001 Swine Research Reports
• Development of models to describe the weekly response of ractopamine, when constant or variable dietary levels of Paylean are fed (also in html)
• Evaluation of the effects of dietary fat, conjugated linoleic acid, and ractopamine on growth performance and carcass quality in genetically lean gilts (also in html)
• Evaluation of an updated model to describe the compositional growth of pigs fed Paylean (also in html)
• Initial evaluation of a model to optimized digestible lysine levels when ractopamine is fed (also in html)
• Modeling the response to Paylean and dietary lysine requirements (also in html)
• Models to predict the response of pigs to increasing levels of ractopamine (also in html)
• Nonlinear mixed effects model for swine growth (also in html)

2000 Swine Day Reports
• The ability of measures of carcass composition to predict empty body protein and lipid composition (also in html)
• Analysis of body composition changes of swine during growth and development (also in html)
• Effect of nutritional level while feeding Paylean to late-finishing swine (also in html)
• The effect of selection for lean growth on swine behavior and welfare (also in html)
• Evaluating differences in stress levels in lean growth versus control Landrace pigs (also in html)
• Evaluation of pig genotype, strategic use of antibiotics and grow-finish management effects on lean growth rate and carcass characteristics (also in html)
• Initial evaluation of a model to describe the compositional growth of pigs fed Paylean (also in html)
• Modeling the response to Paylean and dietary lysine requirements (also in html)

1999 Swine Day Reports
• Effects of high oil corn and duration of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) supplementation on pig growth, pork quality and carcass composition (also in html)
• Evaluation of an alternative method to predict sampling errors associated with daily protein accretion and amino acid requirements (also in html)
• Evaluation of commonly used lean prediction equations for accuracy and biases (also in html)
• Evaluation of genotype, therapeutic antibiotic, and health-management effects and interactions on lean growth rate (also in html)
• Genetic by environmental interactions for pig growth (also in html)

1998 Swine Day Reports
• The effects of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and feed intake on lean pig growth and carcass composition (also in html)
• Effects of environment, genotype, and health management system on pig growth performance and carcass characteristics (also in html)
• An evaluation of growth performance in swine raised in commercial and unrestricted environments (also in html)
• Growth and characterization of individual backfat layers and their relationship to pork carcass quality (also in html)
• Sampling errors associated with protein accretion and amino acid requirements predicted from serial live weight and real-time ultrasound measurements (also in html)

1997 Swine Day Reports
• Effect of pen density on nursery pig performance (also in html)
• The effects of dietary fat and lysine on pig growth, pork quality and carcass composition (also in html)
• Effects of environment, genotype, sex, and antibiotic treatment on pig growth, carcass characteristics, and pork quality (also in html)
• Health and lean growth performance of barrows reared in all-in, all-out or continuous flow facilities with or without antibiotic (also in html)

1996 Swine Day Reports
• Effects of genotype, sex, slaughter weight, and dietary fat on pig growth, carcass composition, and pork quality
• Evaluation of the effects of immune system activation versus disease on pig growth
• Swine lean growth and pork quality evaluation trials - 1996 Swine Day Report