Abstracts - Nutrition

Protected ZnO may be a successful strategy to reduce dietary Zn supplementation without affecting performance and strongly reducing Zn excretion in weanling pigs.

Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) dietary supplementation may reduce post-farrowing blood glucose avoiding hypophagia in lactating sows.

Dietary levels above requirements of Met in finisher pigs may improve pork quality without affecting performance parameters.

Daily digestible phosphorous supply between 4.6 and 6.7 g fitting a 1.4:1 Ca:P ratio may be enough to achieve a proper growth rate pattern in lean growing-finishing pigs.

High levels of limestone in weanling diets may affect piglet performance after weaning increasing colonic ecology and intestinal inflammatory response.

Dietary levels of 1.8 and 2.2 kg/d in late gestation do not differ on reproductive and piglet performance.

Pioglitazone hydrochloride and Vitamin E may enhance pork quality by increasing intramuscular fat and antioxidant capacity of meat.

Dietary CMH and GAA supplementation could improve growth performance and meat quality traits in finishing pigs.

Creep feed intake may improve post-weaning adaptation to solid feed while higher intake of starter diet improves pig performance until slaughter.

L-arginine supplementation at late gestation may enhance farrowing performance.

Dietary crude protein reduction with Arg and Leu supplementation may play a negative role on meat and carcass marbling in pigs.

Multi-species probiotics may outcome as potential growth and health promoters in growing-finishing pigs.

Dietary inclusion of protected organic acids may be useful as a suitable alternative to antibiotics.

Low-protein organic diets can achieve performance standards in lactating sows with small litters but not in large litter.

High inclusion of by-products in finishing diets may reduce feed cost but affects performance and carcass quality traits.

Aspergillus niger phytase supplementation may contribute to inorganic P reduction in grain-oilseed meal diets.

Dietary probiotics supplementation in weanling diets improve pig performance independently of the dietary lactose level used.

Energy allowance due to feeding level offered during gestation may affect litter size and weight at birth.

Low-protein diets may improve meat quality traits in growing-finishing pigs.

Buttiauxella phytase supplementation may be a suitable strategy to completely replace inorganic phosphate in swine diets.

Bioprocessed soybean meal may be a suitable protein source for piglet nursery diets.

L-proline supplementation during early-pregnancy improves litter size and birth weight in sows with negative energy balance.

Dietary spray-dried porcine plasma supplementation during lactation may improve litter performance in multiparous sows.

The increase in dietary free amino acids under heat stress conditions may be a suitable solution to overcome the lack of performance.