Abstracts - Nutrition

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

The in vitro method may be a useful tool to predict the potential NH3 emissions of the different feed ingredients

Sunflower oil improves apparent digestibility of SFA, MUFA and PUFA but reduces the retention of MUFA and PUFA

Dietary supplementation of delta-aminolevulinic acid may increase the iron transfer efficiency from sows to piglets

Dietary phytic acid content may affect mineral digestibility and availability in piglets

Particle size after grinding may be a critic factor for lupin AA digestibility in growing pigs