Page 5 of articles about lactation in Abstracts

The Ig immunocrit method is a simple and useful in assessing the initiation of colostrum and the nursing ability of sows, and the effect of these events on preweaning piglet mortality.

Dietary valine supplementation increases serum albumin, IgM, IgG and prolactin concentrations.

Prenatal flavour exposure decrease neophobia for specific flavours.

Feed intake during lactation is a key factor on litter performance and subsequent successful productive live of the sow.

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.

The restriction movement showed a positive effect in the reduction in mortality.

This study tested experimentally whether acoustic contact without any possibility to see other sows is sufficient for a high level of nursing synchronization.

Suckling during 12 to 14 h postpartum is insufficient to maintain lactation and the process of involution that occurs in early lactation is reversible within 1 day.

Sows fed PUFA rich diets promote FA beta-oxidation in pigs after weaning which could help the mobilization of body reserves for this critical period.

There is not a clear effect of feeding genetically modified maize on sow and offspring performance.

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

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.

More split-weaned than control sows had elevated serum progesterone 2 days post weaning (47.6% versus 9.5%).

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

Providing 3.05 g/Mcal ratio of SID Lys:ME in lactating sows, litter weight gain could be maximized.