Abstracts - Nutrition

Antimicrobial peptides has the potential to improve the growth performance in weanling pigs.

Maternal conditions during gestation and pre-birth environment may affect further growth rate in newborn pigs.

The energy values for dietary protein have to be considered for net energy prediction in fattening pigs.

β-glucan could improve growth performance and immune function in weaned piglets.

Inclusion of dietary CLA oil may promote an increase of SFA and a reduction of MUFA and PUFA in finishing pigs.

High-fermentable NSP may reduce the intestinal abundance of swine pathogenic clostridia.

The inclusion of rapeseed meal until 10% does not affect sow reproductive or litter performance.

Air classification of canola meal fractions may allow more accurate feed formulation for piglets.

An increase in dietary NE concentration could increase the final percentage of acceptable carcasses for high quality dry-cured ham production.

DS-ZnO could alleviate diarrhoea and improve intestinal barrier function.

Supplemental dietary tryptophan may reduce stress during handling and transport in weanling pigs.

Corn and soybean meal may be partially replaced by DDGS in sow diets during late gestation and lactation without affecting sow and litter performance.

Giving 225 mg of Cu/kg as Cu chloride may reduce intestinal oxidative stress than by using Cu sulfate in weanling pigs.

Rather than Enterococcus faecium supplementation, age is the main factor for digestive maturation.

Feeding growing pigs with corn grain silage may reduce lean and ham percentage.

Feeding n-3 fatty acids to gilts may improve litter growth, but does not affect subsequent reproductive performance.

Independently of the nature of the nutrient promoting imbalance, dietary protein-to-energy ratio may determine post-weaning piglet performance

Dietary supplementation of Chinese medicinal herbs may improves intestinal health and nutrient digestibility in weanling pigs.

Dietary alpha-lipoic acid supplementation in sows enhances the antioxidant activity and performance of mothers and their offspring.

Corn/soybean meal lactation diets can contain up to 0.40% L–lysine-HCl with no detrimental effect on reproductive performance.

Early administration of spray-dried animal plasma may stimulate feed intake in weanling pigs.

The addition of spray-dried egg in piglet’s diet may improve improving health and growth rate.

The addition of natural antioxidants in pig’s diet rich in n-3 PUFA avoids the oxidative deterioration in dry-cured ham with no effects on fatty acid composition nor the sensorial attributes.

Ileal bacterial community composition of weaned pigs is modified depending on the level of dietary ZnO.