Abstracts - Nutrition

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

D-biotin supplementation of piglet diets may improve growth performance in early weaned piglets

The contribution of de novo synthesis to microbial AA in pigs does not represent a substantial AA supply for the host

Distillers dried grains from sorghum or sorghum-corn blend showed the same SID for CP and Lys but lower for the rest of AA than those obtained from corn

Boar taint in male and female pigs may be reduced by the inclusion of specific ingredients in the finishing diets

The substitution of wheat by crude glycerol (8%) in piglet diets may improves growth performance

More than 2% of red blood cells inclusion in finishing diets may reduce growth performance in pigs

Dietary crude protein in finishing diets may be reduced until 12% without affecting pig performance and carcass yield

A low dietary supply of PUFA and MUFA is enough to increase the degree of unsaturation of adipose tissue and intramuscular fat lipids in immunocastrated pigs

Dietary isomaltooligosaccharides supplementation did not affect any of the measured parameters

The use of higher insoluble-soluble dietary fibre concentration in piglet diets may improve intestinal health at weaning

Dietary soybean oil suplementation of growing-finishing diets does not affect lipid oxidation in pork products

The use of raw potato starch in the finishing diets may reduce boar taint perception in entire males, however boar taint it is not completely reduced

The use of a wet-dry feeder improves pig performance until slaughter, without improving carcass performance.

Soya bean meal and fullfat soya bean micronization does not improve piglet performance and digestibility of dietary components

Fe and Zn supplementation of pig diets may stimulate growth performance in young animals

Iron glycine chelate improves iron tissue storage and Zinc retention in liver and kidney in weanling piglets

L-Carnitine supplementation of piglet diets may reduce the negatieve impact of low birth weight

The use of an exogenous microbial phytase in growing diets may improve P digestibility and bioavailability

Dietary composition and digestible energy content variation during the grower phase may affect growth performance and carcass quality

Dietary supplementation of chito-oligosaccharide may enhance piglet performance at weaning

Pig performance was not affected by the fat source included in grower diets

The use of silver nanoparticles in piglet diets may reduce microbial load of the small intestine at weaning