Abstracts - Nutrition

Feed ingredient irradiation may be a good technique to reduce microbial concentrations in the diet

The ratio of relative bioavailability between natural vitamin E acetate and syntetic vitamin E acetate is higher than the commonly accepted value of 1.36

Fat distribution is affected by feeding level, but the source of energy used did not change the relative partitioning of fat deposition

n-3 fatty acid content in carcass may be improved by using flaxseed meal in the diet.

The use of a multienzime on wheat DDGS based diets improves nutrient digetibility and growth performance.

The use of freeze dried colostrum in weanling diets may help to reduce inflamatory process improving piglet performance

The use of fish oil may improve plasmatic PUFA contents without affecting growth or health

Oral progestagen during gestation may redude colostrum quality

The use of astaxanthin during the finish phase may improve pork quality and meat acceptance.

The use of antibiotics in feed during the nuresery period may improve piglet performance

Butyrate administration during the sucking period improve intestinal maturation and physiology

Yeast cultures may represent an alternative to antibiotic growth promoters for weanling piglets.

Pig performance is not affected by the wheat variety used in the growing-finishing diets

Diet pelleting improves pig performance during the finishing period; however, pellet quality may strongly depend on diet composition

Dietary available phosphorous may be predicted taking into account the phytase level in the diet

Linseed oil supplementation of sow diets during gestation and lactation modifies piglet ileal structure and physiology

The use of lecithin in finishing diets may improve the growth performance of pigs

The use of mycotoxin binders on diets with a mycotoxin concentration below the practical quantitation limit does not improve growth performance

Zinc and copper supplementation of weanling diets improve piglet performance during the nursery period

Protein products from intestinal mucosa may be taken into account as proteins sources for piglet diets

The use of DDGS in finishing diets until 3 weeks before slaughter does not affect carcass quality

Water addition into the mixer may improve pelleting performance and pellet quality

The use of non-starch polysaccharides hydrolysis products in combination with egg yolk antibodies may reduce the effects of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli K88

The use of ractopamine in finishing diets may improve gain efficiency and carcass composition