Abstracts - Nutrition

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

The use of transgenic corn grains, to prevent rootworms damage in corn cops, in pig diets does not affect pig performance and carcass quality

The use of low phytic acid ingredients combined with phytase may reduce the potential negative impacts of P ion the environment

Commercial diets does not satisfy DE requirements in late gestation and lactation

The weanling process reduces Lactobacillus promoting Streptococcus suis increase in piglet intestine

The use of selected lactic acid bacteria strains may be very useful to start feed acidification in liquid feeding diets

Epidermal growth factor supplementation of piglet diets may stimulate intestinal piglet development and maturation at weaning

Pelleted canola meal may be a suitable protein source for piglet diets

Fluctuation in feed intake either every day or every 3 d had minimal effect on carcass fat to lean ratio compared with pigs fed restricted amount throughout the experiment.

Reducing the dietary crude protein content may stimulate feed intake in high temperature and humidity conditions

High quality diets may preserve piglet intestinal health just after weaning. However, lower quality diets may be offered in piglets weaned up to 28 d

Milk fat content in lactating sows was not affected by the dietary supplementation of conjugated linoleic acid however, milk conjugated linoleic acid content is increased

Multiparous sows enter easily to the electronic feeders than primiparous without effects on feeder aggressions

Feeding pregnant sows amounts above the requirement during the period of secondary muscle fiber formation affected muscle fiber characteristics