articles about farrow in Abstracts

Results suggest that drying piglets at birth is an effective method to reduce rectal temperature decline in the early postnatal period, especially for low birth weight piglets.

Flavor supplementation improved the reproductive performance of the sows by changing the fecal microbial profile.

Increasing feed intake during late gestation may improve sow and litter performance.

Lameness may decrease sow gestation length and reduce placental efficiency in protecting the offspring from the sows’ stress response.

Findings confirm the efficacy of the novel vaginal drug delivery system for induction of farrowing in sows.

The addition of dietary inulin during late gestation has a positive impact on sow reproductive performance.

Caffeine supplementation of sows receiving progesterone to prevent premature farrowing impaired piglet survival during, and shortly after parturition.

Caffeine positively affected the vitality of the piglets, as indicated by greater vitality scores than that for the control group.

Piglet stillbirth was associated with several hematological parameters of the sow, namely hemoglobin concentration, mean cell hemoglobin concentration...

Effect of feeding time and frequency during gestation does not affect farrowing performance.

Although the better sow and litter performance for group housed sows with electronic feeding system some improvements are still required in terms of body scratch and locomotion disorders.

The current study demonstrated that the expression of some piglet-directed behaviour was influenced by the system in which a gilt was born and reared.

Our results suggest that at least at the chosen stocking densities, parity and space allocation have minimal effect on a number of commonly-used welfare measures.

On the basis of the presented results, it should be noted that the use of oxytocin into insemination doses improves the farrowing rate and other parameters of the reproductive performance of sows.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of different induction protocols when applied on d114 of gestation.

Under the conditions of this study, more piglets are born during unsupervised hours when sows are induced on day 116 than when sows are induced on day 113.