Articles - Nutrition

What nutrients can be provided to the sow to improve fetal growth, production of milk and colostrum and to modulate the inflammatory response.

How, when and why should feed be increased? what needs to be considered when drawing feed curves? first hand farmer experience from Can Ballau, answers these and other questions

Data sheet with nutritional values (table comparison) and most recent studies about sorghum.

What is the disease transmission risk that comes with importing raw materials? Many feed ingredients are produced in China.

The role of dietary fiber deserves consideration in finding new strategies to alleviate enteric problems, without the use of high zinc oxide levels.

Deficient levels of isoleucine in feed low in crude protein can compromise the growth and gain to feed ratio of piglets.

In addition to prophylactic measures, gilt nutrition plays a crucial role in the development of their health status. This review addresses different nutritional strategies to stimulate the immunological state during quarantine.

Data sheet with nutritional value (table comparison), production, trade, and most recent studies about animal plasma.

Additional nutrient supply via water is a quick tool in stressing periods.

Incorporating fibrous by-products in the feed reduces the emission of ammonium from manure and nitrous oxide in agricultural fields

The fiber in the diet improves the colostrum yield of sows and it helps reducing farrowing length. But... how many grams of fiber are recommended to be supplied to the sows during last week prior to farrowing?

Fact sheet with the nutritional value (comparison of tables), production, trade and the most recent studies on maize.

This article reviews nutritional strategies to achieve a more efficient digestion and absorption of nutrients, which in turn will promote intestinal health.

Increased sows feed consumption, protection against piglet diarrhea, meat quality improvement and many more…

Fact sheet with nutritional value (table comparison), production, trade, and most recent studies about common wheat

Soybean meals from the US, Brazil and Argentina, their major exporters, may present bigger than expected nutritional differences.

How can we promote a healthier microbiota, favorable for the pig and for its productivity? And, when is the best time to get it?

Data sheet with types, characteristics, use in pig diets and results of the most recent studies on xylanase enzymes.

Supplementation of proteases into pig diets has resulted in positive, inconclusive, inconsistent or, in some cases, depressive effects on performance.

Some nutritional strategies can have an antibacterial activity, do you want to know which ones?

This article reviews the effect of components of the diet on the bones and osteochondrosis, this being the main caused of lameness and a reason for the culling of young sows. Therefore, they are important concepts to bear in mind in the diets for the rearing of gilts.

Probiotics and amino acids to improve the intestinal barrier. Omega-3 fatty acids, plasma, probiotics, prebiotics, etc... to enhance the immune response.

The overgrowth of horn of the claw leading to slipper feet, cracking or separation, and secondary septic laminitis has a multifactorial origin.

What is oxidative stress and why is it so important? What relationship does it have with tail bites, weaning, late pregnancy or high milk production?