Page 24 of articles about piglet

Selection for litter size at day five after farrowing (LS5) was introduced in 2004 in order to increase number of piglets weaned and reduce piglet mortality in Danish Landrace and Yorkshire.

Rather than Enterococcus faecium supplementation, age is the main factor for digestive maturation.

Litter uniformity is compromised by severe sow body condition loss during lactation and improved in sows with a prolonged WPI. These effects are likely related with (insufficient) restoration of follicle development.

Independently of the nature of the nutrient promoting imbalance, dietary protein-to-energy ratio may determine post-weaning piglet performance

Dietary supplementation of Chinese medicinal herbs may improves intestinal health and nutrient digestibility in weanling pigs.

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.

Early administration of spray-dried animal plasma may stimulate feed intake in weanling pigs.

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

The addition of spray-dried egg in piglet’s diet may improve improving health and growth rate.

Farrowing behavior, cross-fostering, birth weight and gender of piglets were investigated.

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

Ileal bacterial community composition of weaned pigs is modified depending on the level of dietary ZnO.

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.

Isoleucine:lysine ratio does not influence the response to increasing tryptophan:lysine ration in 5,9- to 10,9-kg pigs.