Abstracts - Nutrition

Sodium butyrate and benzoic acid: an opportunity to improve growth performance and gut microbiota health in weaning pigs.

Dietary supplementation with flavor and multi-enzymes may be a useful strategy to enhance primiparous sows’ performance.

A reduction of dietary crude protein in finishing pigs during summer conditions does not affect performance and carcass quality.

Inulin supplementation has a beneficial effect on growth performance and carcass traits in growing-finishing pigs.

Microalgae supplementation in pig diets may enhance piglets’ gut health by promoting a prebiotic effect.

A high level of dietary fiber diminishes the adverse effects of heat stress during the gestation period.

Reducing dietary crude protein in a balanced diet with synthetic amino acids in finishing pigs can improve nitrogen utilization, meat quality and flavor.

Yeast products supplementation in growing-finishing pigs may improve meat quality and carcass traits.

Early feeding may be a suitable strategy to modulate intestinal development in young piglets.

Spirulina supplementation in gestation and lactation diets may affect colostrum quality and litter performance.

Citrus extract supplementation in growing-finishing pigs may improve meat quality and nutritional value of pork products.

Wheat and barley partially replacing corn shows health and intestinal microbial benefits in growing pigs.

Dietary Bacillus coagulans supplementation may improve performance and intestinal health in weanling pigs.

Increasing fiber in high-energy diets reduced fat deposition and mammary cell apoptosis in gilts.

Providing dietary lysine above current National Research Council recommendations in late gestation increases mammary development in gilts.

High digestible threonine to lysine ratio in high fiber diets for growing-finishing pigs does not improve performance.

Supplementation of Bacillus subtilis may improve piglet health and performance after weaning.

Dietary fiber may improve placental development in gestating sows.

Maternal methyl donor supplementation affects growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of the offspring.

Dietary Eucommia ulmoides leaf extract supplementation may affect lipid metabolism and reduce carcass fat deposition in growing-finishing pigs.

Dietary gallic acid supplementation in weanling diets may exert a positive impact on health status and performance especially in low weaning weight piglets.

Carbohydrase supplementation in lactation diets may positively affect sow and piglet gut microbiota composition.

High-dosing A. oryzae phytase supplementation may have a beneficial impact on digestibility, performance and carcass traits in growing-finishing pigs.

While tail biting is multifactorial, an imbalance in the microbiota-gut-brain axis, modulated via the diet, should be considered as a pathway for the development of tail biting.