Abstracts - Nutrition

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

Crude glycerine may represent a valuable energy source for nursery diets in swine

Increase feeding level during late gestation does not improve sow or gilt performance

The use of a complex creep diet may improve piglet performance during lactation and the number of pigs that consume creep feed

The energy value of meat and bone meal for swine may be predicted taking into account the proximate composition

Dietary CLA inclusion during the fattening period may improve bacon firmness and stability

An E. coli based probiotic may produce inhibitory activity against enterotoxigenic strains for swine

Feeding a diet decreased in CP for 7 or 14 days can achieve a reduction in PWD and not cause any loss in production in postweaning period.

The dietary lysine optimization may reduce feed cost per kilogram of gain in pigs during the growing-finishing phase

Vitamin E acetate supplementation in high-oleic sunflower oil may improve meat lipid stability

Dietary excess of lysine reduces the concentration of g-butyrobetaine in muscle affecting the synthesis of carnitine

Selenoprotein gene expression may not be a useful tool to assess body selenium status in pigs

Dietary carnitine and chromium supplementation may increase farrowing rate and thus total number born alive

Plant extracts may affect piglet intestinal health in a different way depending on the dietary CP content

Dietary oil supplementation may increase AA digestibility of most defatted soybean protein products contained in growing diets for pigs

The use of Arginine supplementation in piglet diets may reduce gut mucosal inflammatory process at weaning

Meat colour and colour stability in pork may be affected by dietary composition