Page 5 of articles about gestation in Abstracts

There is no evidence of a relation between haemoglobin concentration and the number of total born, stillborn or number of piglets alive at three weeks and the next breeding performance.

The inclusion of rapeseed meal until 10% does not affect sow reproductive or litter performance.

These results may indicate that there is an upper uterine limitation of litter size, and that placental area and placental weight influence post partum survival.

Dietary alpha-lipoic acid supplementation in sows enhances the antioxidant activity and performance of mothers and their offspring.

Corn/soybean meal lactation diets can contain up to 0.40% L–lysine-HCl with no detrimental effect on reproductive performance.

10% RM to hyper prolific sows over three parities was safe and did not affect sow longevity, reproductive or litter performance.

The supply of the antioxidants to the sow during the weaning‐estrus interval significantly reduced both the percentage of immature piglets per litter and the within‐litter variation of birth weights.

Sows had received their daily ration in one or two meals. Reproductive performance during gestation and the following lactation was measured.

Increasing the feeding level during gestation improves weight gain of the sow and diminishes blood’s NEFA concentration, but does not affect the embryo or the placenta.

Sorting by parity shielded first-parity sows from severe injuries caused by mixing-induced aggression.

“2nd parity syndrome” (P2S) includes various signs: delayed estrus, infertility and small litters.

Dietary protein level during pregnancy may affect fetal and piglet development.

L-arginine supplementation during late gestation does not affect piglet performance and milk yield.

Those factors that were significantly associated with longevity, regardless of definition, were age at first farrowing, litter size at first farrowing and last farrowing...

Increasing feeding allowance to gestating sows does not provide major benefits to the offspring.

The inclusion of osteopontin in milk formulas protects against necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm piglets.