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The use of fiber can be a good strategy to control post-weaning diarrhea, but what type of fiber is effective?

Balancing dietary fibers correctly to support intestinal health has potential as a dietary tool when pharmaceutical levels of zinc oxide is no longer permitted in piglet feeds.

Feeding fermented oats to weanling pigs may have beneficial effects on their growth performance, nutrient digestibility and ileal microorganism balance.

Although pigs are not particularly efficient in fermenting dietary fiber, fortunately a number of fiber degrading enzymes are available but it is important that the specific enzymes are matched to the substrate.

The fiber in the diet improves the colostrum yield of sows and it helps reducing farrowing length. But... how many grams of fiber are recommended to be supplied to the sows during last week prior to farrowing?

How can we promote a healthier microbiota, favorable for the pig and for its productivity? And, when is the best time to get it?

Fiber is being "rediscovered" due to its multiple benefits: physiological, on intestinal health and for the environment.

Predicting the functional effect of fibre ingredients when fed to early weaning piglets is advisable in order to control the gut health.

The results show that digestibility of the same diets is indeed higher for gestating and lactating sows than it is for growing pigs.

At a moment in which the prices of the raw materials, although they are giving us a break, are still very high, it is essential to take some time to think about the use of enzymes in swine.

Constipation is one of the factors that are involved in pre weaning piglet mortality.

Seaweeds are rich in undigestible polysaccharides and are a potential source of soluble dietary fibers. The most abundant polysaccharides in brown seaweeds are laminarin, fucoidan and alginic acid.

Nutrition is considered to be a clear factor that increases the risk of ulcers appearing.

Stomach ulcers are one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality, unrelated to infectious processes, that the industrial production of swine faces, both in reproduction as well as in finishing.

Fiber includes a great variety of components with different physicochemical properties that will affect the digestive processes, separately or by combining, in properties such as solubility, viscosity, formation of gels, water retention capacity, bulkiness, endogenous secretions, nutrient absorption, fermentations, intestinal transit, etc.

Dietary fibre (DF) is an important component of all but a few feedstuffs used in the feeding of pigs. It is resistant to digestion by endogenous enzymes in the small intestine thereby becoming the main substrate for bacterial fermentation, particularly in the large intestine.