Abstracts - Nutrition

Net energy is paramount for appropriate growth gain and final body weight in finishing pigs, without affecting nutrient digestibility and gas emissions.

Prebiotic xylo-oligosaccharides may enhance growth performance and gut health in weaning piglets.

Arginine in sows diet improves milk composition, promoting a healthier and more balanced gut microbiome at weaning.

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens effects on pig growth and meat quality.

Metabolic benefits of niacinamide in low-protein diets.

Fiber-rich diets at weaning may become successful feeding strategy in piglets.

This case reports the level of ergot alkaloids and duration of exposure found under field conditions in a herd that experienced a high neonatal mortality event consequent to agalactia in the sows.

Maternal L-malic acid consumption during gestation improves offspring muscle development and metabolic health.

Fermented pine needles may improve meat tenderness and antioxidant status without affecting carcass traits in finishing pigs.

Cottonseed protein isolate may be a suitable alternative to cottonseed meal in growing pigs.

Fermented feed materials containing Pediococci and Lactobacilli may improve gut health and growth performance in weanling pigs.

The inclusion of dietary fiber in lactating diets may directly depend on fiber source and their fermentability.

Spirulina may become a sustainable alternative to soybean meal in pig diets.

A low protein diet may enhance gut health but reduces nutrient digestibility through time-dependent microbiota shifts.

Extrusion may improve nutrient digestibility of distillers dried grains for weaning diets.

Dietary supplementation of Hungatella hathewayi may modulate gut microbiota and estrogen levels in sows.

Herb based phytobiotics supplementation may improve gut health in weanling pigs.

Supplementation with antioxidants and osmolytes may improve weight gain in heat-stressed finishing pigs.

Dietary benzoic acid supplementation may improve growth performance, N retention while reducing the environmental impact in growing-finishing pigs.

Phytogenic feed additive supplementation to piglets challenged with F4-fimbriated enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli reduced the prevalence of fecal E. coli excretion and improved jejunal histomorphology.

Dietary supplementation of essential fatty acids during lactation may improve reproductive performance in multiparous sows but not in primiparous sows.

Data suggest that sows fed ad libitum eat what they need and can convert feed more efficiently into the piglets’ growth without additional weight loss.

Dietary choline supplementation in growing-finishing pigs may improve carcass traits without any negative impact on growth performance.

Dietary selenium enriched yeast supplementation in short period may have beneficial effects on intestinal health in growing-finishing pigs.