articles about weaning in Abstracts

Environmental enrichment with cubes appears to have the greatest effect when applied post-weaning whereas flavor attractants appear to have the greatest effect when applied both pre- and post-weaning.

Early intermittent neonatal maternal separation created stress and affected the growth performance of piglets during suckling. However, the growth rate was improved by compensatory measures during late weaning.

Glycine supplementation improves the intestinal immunological barrier function and the microbial composition in weanling piglets.

Resilience to weaning stress was associated with behavioral differences in finishing gilts at mixing and when faced with novel situations.

The approach is capable of automatically monitoring several different behaviors of a group of pigs at the same time.

Lowering the dietary protein level in post-weaning diets may reduce the impact on diarrhoea at weaning.

A combination of carvacrol, thymol, and cinnamaldehyde in weanling diets may improve growth performance, intestinal health, and gut microbiota in piglets.

Floor feeding large pellet creep feed starting 4 days preweaning improved nursery pig growth performance and fallout rates.

Neonatal care treatment may be useful to reduce mortality in low birth weight piglets and could affect carcass fatness and meat quality.

Tryptophan as a strategy to improve growth performance, intestinal mucosal barrier integrity, and intestinal microbial ecology in weaned piglets.

Milk replacer enriched with wheat may promote early gut maturation.

Piglets with 1.25 to 2.30kg BW and low weight gain during suckling presented a partial compensatory growth during the nursery phase.

Early socialised piglets may have better social skills when meeting familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics after weaning.

Creep feed supplementation has no clear effect on piglet behavior and performance.

Increasing the weaning age can be an effective strategy to improve the overall performance in a commercial system. Results of this study imply that 25 d is the optimal weaning age.

Early development of gilt progeny may be delayed compared with sow progeny and a number of anatomical differences present at birth are also present at weaning.