Abstracts - Nutrition

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.

Dietary glyceryl polyethylene glycol ricinoleate supplementation may improve intestinal health in post-weaning piglets.

Milk biofortified with n-6 and n-3 may improves the immune status of sows and promotes positive transgenerational effects.

Supplementing a low-protein diet with diammonium phosphate may improve growth performance and the amino acid content related to meat flavor.

Osmoprotectants and antioxidant supplementation may reduce the negative impact of heat stress in growing finishing pigs.

Grain preserved with organic acids and butyric acid may promote nutrient digestibility and feed efficiency but may affect intestinal microbial balance.

Probiotic supplementation through gestation and lactation may improve sow performance and piglet health.

A framework for monitoring feeding behavior of grow-finish pigs in real time, using a low-frequency radio frequency identification system.

Iron and inulin supplementation may improve growth performance and meat quality in finishing pigs.

Increasing SID lysine and net energy can enhance growth performance and backfat thickness in growing-finishing pigs.

Phytogenic supplementation in weanling diets may exert growth promoter effects as in pigs during the nursery period.