Abstracts - Nutrition

Keratinase supplementation has a positive effect on the performance of weanling piglets fed corn-soybean diets.

Short-term magnesium chelate supplementation improves water holding capacity and sensory visual assessment on pork packaged in modified atmosphere.

Maize DDGS may present a viable option to substitute a premium feed ingredient in growing–finishing pig diets.

The iodine value of one fat depot may not be a good indication of iodine value of other fat depots.

Creep feed initiated from day 5 and 10 reduce diarrhea scores in piglets and the estrus interval in sows.

High-viscous, low-fermentable dietary fibre increases the proportion of a diet that is digested in the small intestine.

A reduction in particle size and multi-enzyme supplementation are useful strategies in the post-weaning period, but not in the growing period.

Different feeding programs might be needed for barrows and gilts to optimize the production of high quality dry-cured hams.

Increased dietary ZnO could lead to an increased competition among enterobacteria and, consequently, reduce the occurrence of pathogenic E. coli strains.

80 g/kg dietary inulin may protect pigs against developing swine disentery by modifying the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract.

An increase in intramuscular fat in pigs fed low protein diets is related to tissue-specific activation of gene expression.

Increasing dietary lysine and energy levels improves growth performance and apparent total tract digestibility of nutrients.

A mathematical model serves as a tool to study phosphorus digestibility for different feedstuffs and feeding strategies.

CLA administration to sows reduces backfat thickness loss during the lactation period and lets to higher piglet weight at weaning.

Glutamine supplementation may be useful in reducing the severity of weaning-related gastrointestinal infections.

Supplementation with folic acid in the diets of lactating sows increases milk production, improves milk quality and the performance of piglets.

The preference for the different feed ingredients should be taken into account during diet formulation as well as nutrient composition and ingredients cost.

Higher lysine levels than those recommended by the NRC improve reproductive performance for multiparous gestating sows.

High levels of acetic acid in fermented liquid feed can impair palatability of piglets.

Feeding omega 3 fatty acids as a way to increase the sows’ litter size.

Increasing feeding frequency from 2 to 6 times daily increases ADG and feed efficiency of floor-fed, group housed finishing pigs.

Chicory inulin and raw potato starch as ingredients to reduce the boar taint of meat from intact male pigs.

No differences in further processed product characteristics among physically and immunologically castrated male pigs were found.

The role of zinc oxide in improving piglet health is via a different mechanism to that previously proposed.