Abstracts - Nutrition

Organic selenium supplementation during gestation improves performance and antioxidant capacity of sows and their offspring.

Coated cysteamine improves carcass characteristics, meat quality and affects lipid metabolism in finishing pigs.

Increased vitamin supplementation during gestation and lactation may improve piglet performance at weaning.

Porcine digestible peptides upregulates the expression of intestinal function genes in weanling piglets as the basis of higher intestinal health.

The addition of dietary inulin during late gestation has a positive impact on sow reproductive performance.

Fermented okara (a byproduct from the soymilk and tofu industry) might promote growing pig growth and improve antioxidant capacity and ameliorate meat quality of pork.

Dietary inclusion of benzoic acid can stabilize liquid feed pH, but does not improve growth or feed efficiency.

Short-chain fructo-oligosaccharide supplementation might improve piglet health and resilience.

B. subtilis PB6 might improve sow reproductive performance and gut health.

Vachellia tortilis leaf meal can modify the carcass characteristics of pork and the fatty acid profile.

Feeding higher dietary lysine to small pigs can compensate for their reduced feed intake capacity.

Pre-fermented rapeseed meal could be a potential alternative for medicinal ZnO when supplemented at ≤ 10% dietary DM.

Lysophospholipids supplementation during lactation enhanced milk composition and piglet development.

Milk thistle seed supplementation (3-6%) in finishing pigs can improve meat quality and oxidative stability.

With a multienzyme supplement, net energy and amino acid can be lowered in growing-finishing pig diets without effects on growth performance.

The addition of phytases derived from E. coli, appAT1 and appAT2, significantly improved the final BW and FCR of pigs.

Feeding increased lysine and metabolizable energy prior to farrowing can increase sow body weight and backfat.

Rapeseed meal and faba beans can be a suitable alternative to soybean meal in terms of meat quality.

Dietary fat can be used selectively on farms to increase the average daily gain of the lightest pigs.

A combination of soluble/insoluble fiber promotes growth performance in weaning piglets.

Dietary chitosan might improve piglet performance and immune status.

Neither feeding level nor diet type during the weaning to estrus interval had an impact on sow reproductive performance.

A water-to-feed ratio of 3.5:1 DM would be recommended for growing-finishing pigs.

Rapeseed meal seems to promote the development of protective gut microbiota.