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The performance and behaviour of gilts and their piglets is influenced by whether they were born and reared in farrowing crates or farrowing pens

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.

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HealthArticle

Mucosa immunity and E. coli

This article explains how E. coli breaks the complex intestinal barrier mechanisms in a comprehensible way.

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NutritionAbstract

Perinatal dietary choline deficiency in sows

Dietary choline deficiency induces alterations in plasma choline metabolites which are evident at the end of lactation. Betaine and select FAs in milk are sensitive to maternal dietary choline deficiency and day of lactation. Alterations in concentrations of these nutrients may affect early-life neonatal development.

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Minimize the nutrient deficiency in early lactation and improve milk yield

A better fit of nutrient requirements in early lactation improves sow milk yield.

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Scours caused by E. Coli. (Courtesy of Dr. Hector Patullo)

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Vaccination strategies for the prevention of oedema disease and diarrhoea caused by E.coli. Neonatal and post-weaning diarrhoea (2/2)

Achieving good levels of colostral immunity by vaccinating sows is the first step to prevent scours; subsequently, active pre or post-weaning immunization must be added to prevent post-weaning diarrhoea.

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NutritionAbstract

Flavour inclusion tolerance in weanling diets for piglets

Flavour inclusion in piglet diets is safe even at higher inclusion levels than those commonly used for the industry.

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Concentration of short-chain fatty acid on colon digesta of piglets 10 and 15 days after weaning fed 4 different experimental diets

NutritionArticle

Effect of fermentable and inert fibre in weaning piglets

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

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NutritionAbstract

Effects of sodium butyrate supplementation on reproductive performance and colostrum composition in gilts

Collectively, SB supplementation could reduce the rate of gilts return to estrus, alter the composition of colostrum and enhance the growth rate of piglets.

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NutritionAbstract

Impact of maternal vitamin D supplementation on sows and litter

Maternal vitamin D3 supplementation improves serum concentration in both sows and piglets but, does not affect their performance.

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NutritionAbstract

Effects of dietary conjugated linoleic acid on cytotoxicity of peripheral blood lymphocytes in piglets

Dietary CLA enhanced cytotoxicity of peripheral blood lymphocytes perhaps through changing its fatty acid composition.

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NutritionAbstract

Enzymatic feather meal as protein source for diets in nursery pigs

Enzymatic feather meal may become an alternative protein source for piglet diets.

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ManagementArticle

Weaning in open housing, an alternative for the management of a production increase

Open housing allow to increase the actual surface per weaned piglet, thus reducing hierarchy problems, and redefining the dunging, lying and feeding areas.

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NutritionArticle

Nutritional management in the nursery

Understand the role nutrition can play in gut health and animal performance is essential to enjoying good performance as we move away from antibiotic growth promoters and heavy metals.

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The milk supplement does not replace the dam's milk, but supplements it.

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Management interventions for large litters: Economic assessment

Milk supplementation shows much higher growth rates in the fattening stage, so its implementation would be interesting to regain body condition in animals with low birth weight.

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ManagementAbstract

The effect of mixing levels on aggression at weaning in piglets

Growing mixing level increased aggression, lesion and weight loss after mixing.

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HealthArticle

How the anti-inflammatory drugs given to sows affect the piglets

Assessment of a study, by Enric de Marco, on the use of anti-inflammatory drugs in sows at farrowing in order to reduce piglet mortality and increase the weight of piglets at weaning.