Abstracts - Nutrition

Dietary ractopamine supplementation in pig diet during the fattening period may improve carcass and primal cuts without affecting pork qualty

The supplementation of slowly released tributyrin and lactitol in piglet diets may overcome the adverse effects of vegetable protein sources during the nursery phase

Independently of the nature of the Fe source in sow diet, the Fe injection at birth it is critical to achieve optimum growth of piglets

A feed restriction protocol of 21 days in the finishing phase followed by ad libitum feeding programme since to slaughter may improve efficiency in growing-finishing pigs

Tissue fatty acid composition in pigs may be directly modulated by dietary fatty acid profile

The use of the dry defraction method of corn grains and steam drying during the fermentation process produces higher digestible DDGS for swine

The use of complex nursery diets with the same flavour of creep feed may stimulate feed intake just after weaning

Increasing total feed intake of sows during lactation may improve litter gain and sow productivity

The use of rice protein concentrate in weanling diets may reduce feed costs and improve growth performance in piglets

Cereal hemicellulose fibre reduces apparent ileal digestibility of amino acids by increasing endogenous losses

Increasing weaning age and decreasing dietary protein level may help to minimise the effects of post-weaning colibacillocis on performance

The replacement of animal plasma by swine hydrolyzed intestinal mucosa in weanling diets does not reduce piglet performance and gastrointestinal development

Amino acid and glucose upload in blood may be affected by the dietary starch source

The B vitamin levels recommended in NRC (1998) still fits with the requirements of the recent genetic improved pigs

Feeding sows with diets containing high dietary fibre content may be a successful strategy to reduce stress during gestation

Dietary sweeteners in piglets diets may reduce the starvation period after weaning

Feeding sows organic trace minerals may improve sow reproductive performance

Glucose curve characteristics and insulin sensivity may affect litter performance and sow productivity

Bacillus supplemented diets may improve pig performance during the grower-finisher phase and reduce the time spent to pen cleaning

Phytase supplementation combined with organic acids may reduce piglet diarrhoea at weaning

Linseed or fish oil supplementation of growing finishing diets does not improve meat quality in pigs

Ergot contaminated diets may affect sow and litter performance by reducing milk production

Liquid feeding system improve pig performance compared to conventional feeding systems during the growing/finishing phase

Feeding space availability at weaning may affect feed conversion ratio and diarrhoea scorings in piglets