Abstracts - Nutrition

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.

The addition of high oleic soybean oil to growing-finishing pigs' diet improves growth performance and backfat thickness.

Milk replacer enriched with wheat may promote early gut maturation.

Dietary lysolecithin supplementation may improve litter growth while preserving sow body reserves.

Carcass, meat quality, and oxidative stability are dependent on dietary Zn level in growing-finishing pigs.

Fermented wheat bran and yeast culture show positive functional effects on immune response and intestinal morphology in growing-finishing pigs.

Supplemental synthetic milk could be a feasible measure to improve the health and reduce the number of deaths of piglets.

Sow L-carnitine supplementation improves litter size and offspring muscle development.

Selenomethionine may improve meat quality and selenium deposition in finishing pigs.

Brine mineral water may enhance performance and immune response in growing-finishing pigs.