Abstracts - Nutrition

Dietary treatments of ≥800 IU/kg feed showed beneficial effects for breeding swine in terms of bone mineral content and ultimate strength, decreased number of still born piglets, and greater vitamin D status in comparison with dietary treatments of 200 IU/kg of feed.

Fulvic acid increases growth performance and improve meat quality.

Pea starch can be used as an alternative source of starch for lactating sows.

New neonatal strategies of micronutrient supplementation to piglets may be required nowadays.

Plant extracted polyphenols may be a natural source additive to overcome diarrhoea in weanling pigs.

The use of lecithin in swine diets improve pork tenderness and of dressing percentage.

The addition of different sources of Se did not affect the immunoglobulin concentrations in the gilt or piglet.

Increasing weaning age has positive health effects and increase growth performance between weaning and 10 weeks of age.

Intestinal integrity, function, and metabolism can be compromised due to prolonged heat stress.

The results demonstrated therapeutic effect of valnemulin in pigs with serious SD and did not show therapeutic effect of chelated zinc.

Stage of gestation is the critical point when the sows in a pen with electronic feeding system.

Supplementing resveratrol to weaned piglets could have beneficial effects on growth performance, immune function and the microbial ecosystem.

The use of a satiety-inducing flavour in diet may promote feed efficiency in fattening pigs.

The use of 0.5 g/Kg of fermented garlic powder in the diet may improve ADG and ADFI in weanling pigs.

The use of DDGS in gestating diets may creat controversial response on animal behaviour depending on the housing system.

The extracts from Lippia spp. could be an effective antioxidant in pork meat.

Prediction equations using the concentration of total P in MBM may be useful to estimate P and Ca digestibility in MBM fed to growing pigs.

Dietary valine supplementation increases serum albumin, IgM, IgG and prolactin concentrations.

The combination of SCFA and MCFA could act as gut flora modifiers to promote intestinal heath at weaning.

Prenatal flavour exposure decrease neophobia for specific flavours.

Oregano oil and ground cranberry pulp has a limited effect on the microbiological profile in pork.

Feed intake during lactation is a key factor on litter performance and subsequent successful productive live of the sow.

Phytase supplementation in growing diets may improve P and Cu retention.

Zeolite-ZnO could be a suitable substitute for pharmacological addition of ZnO in weanling pigs.