Abstracts - Nutrition

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.

Isoleucine:lysine ratio does not influence the response to increasing tryptophan:lysine ration in 5,9- to 10,9-kg pigs.

Dietary arachidonate modifies desaturase-elongase pathway in a tissue-specific manner of suckling pigs.

Providing 3.05 g/Mcal ratio of SID Lys:ME in lactating sows, litter weight gain could be maximized.

The antimicrobial peptide-A3 can be used as a potential alternative to antibiotic growth promoters in weanling pigs.

The supplementation of 16 mg of Mn/kg as sulphate monohydrate in the diet it is required to satisfy Mn requirement in piglets.

Increasing the feeding level during gestation improves weight gain of the sow and diminishes blood’s NEFA concentration, but does not affect the embryo or the placenta.

Feeding mannan oligosaccharide may activate immunity against PRRSV.

Dietary inclusion of conjugated linoleic acid with or without arginine does not reduce lipid synthesis in tissues of growing pigs.

A low dose pre-treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus may reduce diarrheic episodes in E. coli challenged piglets.

The inclusion of a mixture of animal-vegetable blend fat and choice white grease may improve sow and litter performance in summer conditions.

The inclusion of chitooligosaccharide in the piglet diet may perform antibacterial activity enhancing the intestinal structure.

Iodine supplementation in-water does not affect growth performance in nursery pigs.

Lactobacillus plantarum ZJ31 supplementation improves growth parameters, pork quality and promotes intestinal villus height in growing pigs.

Split-suckling twice improves piglet growth performance whereas coconut oil administration did not provide any benefits on performance.

Dietary supplementation of multi-carbohyrases in the diet may increase the nutritive value of extruded full fat soybeans for finishing pigs.

SDPP oral supplementation does not improve pre-weaning growth performance in piglets.

A total lysine:crude protein ratio higher than 7.35% may reduce growth performance in post-weaned piglets.

Dietary inclusion of high levels of β-glucan from hulless barely does not prevent Salmonella typhimurium var. copenhagen colonization but might help to reduce transmission in pigs.