Abstracts - Nutrition

Ad libitum feeding during the peripartal period limits excessive loss of body reserves improving litter growth and weaning weight.

The use of new fibre sources may reduce the dry matter and energy digestibility in pigs.

The findings demonstrate strong association between heavy metal tolerance and antimicrobial resistance, particularly among Salmonella serotypes important in public health.

Use plant extract could enable piglets to better withstand the infections that are often associated with weaning.

Using by-products from food industry can reduce the feed costs without affecting pig performance or meat quality.

Linseed oil in sow diets may improve reproductive performance and pre-weaning growth of piglets.

Tannins from the quebracho tree can control the production of compounds that cause manure odors, according to studies by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.

Daily multiphase feeding may be a useful tool to reduce nutrient excretion in manure in growing-finishing pigs.

L. Brevis has intestinal immunomodulatory effects although the low capacity to colonize the porcine gut.

S. cerevisiae should be considered as a successful alternative for the prevention and treatment of diarrhoea in piglets caused by ETEC.

More saturated fatty acids improve the technological properties of backfat.

Xylanase reduce gaseous emissions and can moderate the odorous impact of pig manure.

Piglets׳ colostrum intake associates with daily weight gain and survival until weaning.

Maternal backfat depth in gestating sows influences on offspring growth and carcass lean yield.

Pigs can be fed diets including up to 240 g/kg canola meal together with 150 g/kg DDGS without affecting performance and carcass quality.

Lysine requirements for piglets fed antibiotic free-diets is higher than NRC (1998) recommendation.

These results demonstrate that management options can affect the reproductive performance and injuries of gestating sows in the ESF system.

Increasing DHA supplementation via algal biomass in maternal diets may improve piglet vitality after farrowing.

Modifications in faecal microbiota of sows by E. faecium are carried over to their offspring.

Compensatory growth had no effect on carcass quality with the use of by-products.

Artificial rearing is a good alternative to raise supernumerary piglets.

The ZnAA may reduce the negative effects of severe heat stress on ileal integrity.

The progeny of sows fed a high-fat diet have a higher total PUFA and n−6 fatty acid contents in the longissimus thoracis muscle.

Dietary treatments of ≥800 IU/kg feed showed beneficial effects for breeding swine in terms of bone mineral content and ultimate strength, decreased number of still born piglets, and greater vitamin D status in comparison with dietary treatments of 200 IU/kg of feed.