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Delacon Performing Nature Symposium in Crete/Greece

The Performing Nature Symposium was successfully held last week on the Greece island Crete, where Delacon gathered 250 people from more than 25 countries. In these two days 18 speakers held lectures on the following topics: Trends in animal production and nutrition, Immunity and Environment.

United Kingdom - Code of Practice for Salmonella control

The Code brings together in one document advice that was previously dispersed in three codes and the guidance it contains has been revised to reflect best practice and recent legislative developments.

NutritionAbstract

Amino acid digestibility of distillers dried grains with solubles produced from sorghum, a sorghum-corn blend, and corn fed to growing pigs

Distillers dried grains from sorghum or sorghum-corn blend showed the same SID for CP and Lys but lower for the rest of AA than those obtained from corn

NutritionAbstract

Effect of feeding fermentable fibre-rich feedstuffs on meat quality with emphasis on chemical and sensory boar taint in entire male and female pigs

Boar taint in male and female pigs may be reduced by the inclusion of specific ingredients in the finishing diets

Pigs have no table manners either

Pigs having a snack and literally "squealing like pigs"

EU - Green light to three genetically modified corn varieties

The European Commission decided Friday to authorize the importation of three types of genetically modified corn which are mainly used in animal foods.

NutritionAbstract

Effect of incremental levels of red blood cells on growth performance and carcass traits of finishing pigs

More than 2% of red blood cells inclusion in finishing diets may reduce growth performance in pigs

NutritionAbstract

The effect of feeding crude glycerol on growth performance and nutrient digestibility in weaned pigs

The substitution of wheat by crude glycerol (8%) in piglet diets may improves growth performance

Manejo de la alimentación en el destete

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ManagementArticle

Feed management after weaning

Without a doubt weaning is the most stressful process suffered by a pig, or at least it is up until that moment in its life.

FAO - Global platform for food security revitalized

Members of the FAO Committee on World Food Security (CFS) have agreed on a wide-ranging reform. The reform aims to make CFS the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform dealing with food security and nutrition and to be a central component in the evolving Global Partnership for Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition.

NutritionAbstract

Feeding excess crude protein: effects on growth performance and carcass traits of finishing pigs

Dietary crude protein in finishing diets may be reduced until 12% without affecting pig performance and carcass yield

EU - The Commission will transmit to the Council a proposal to authorise a GM maize

The Commission will transmit to the Council a proposal to authorise genetically modified (GM) maize after Member States representatives were not able to endorse it during a meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH).

NutritionAbstract

The effect of dietary fatty acid level on the fatty acid composition of the adipose and lean tissues of immunocastrated male pigs

A low dietary supply of PUFA and MUFA is enough to increase the degree of unsaturation of adipose tissue and intramuscular fat lipids in immunocastrated pigs

NutritionArticle

Antimicrobial peptides as an alternative to antibiotics in pigs nutrition

The AMPs (also called host defence peptides) are small gene encoded peptides of 1 to 5 kDa that have a broad range of activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, fungi and mycobacteria

Iowa State Swine Nutrition Program Welcomes New Graduate Students

With five new graduate students and a lab manager, Iowa State University’s (ISU) applied swine nutrition program is focused squarely on the future. The program, under the leadership of animal science associate professor John Patience, has three research themes: energy, ingredient evaluation, and feeding management. There also are collaborative efforts with additional animal science faculty members in other areas.

NutritionAbstract

Influence of dietary isomaltooligosaccharides on nutrient digestibility and concentration of glucose, insulin, cholesterol and triglycerides in serum of growing pigs

Dietary isomaltooligosaccharides supplementation did not affect any of the measured parameters