Microencapsulated essential oils boost growth and enhance gut health in weaned piglets
Essential oils supplementation in weanling diets may improve performance, intestinal health, and antioxidant capacity.
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Different fat sources and vitamin E levels on optimizing growth performance, lean growth, organ size, carcass characteristics, primal cuts, and pork quality in heavyweight - finishing pigs
Vitamin E supplementation and its interaction with fat sources may affect yield and quality in heavy slaughtered pigs.
Dietary omega-3 long-chain fatty acids influence on microbial diversity and composition in sows' feces, colostrum, milk, and suckling piglets' feces
Sow omega-3 supplementation may affect microbial populations in the dam and their offspring.
Effects of dietary supplementation with Aurantiochytrium limacinum on tissue fatty acid profile in finishing pigs
Dietary Aurantiochytrium limacinum supplementation at the end of the finishing period may improve the fatty acid composition of pork.
The effect of different fiber sources in antibiotic-free diets on growth, immune responses, intestinal barrier function and microbiota in weaned piglets
The supplementation of wheat bran to antibiotic-free diets improves performance and intestinal health in weaned pigs.
333 Emerging voices - Individual and nutritional factors affecting the homogeneity and performance of Iberian pig production
An investigation at both phenotypic and genotypic levels of the implications of the intrauterine development of the piglets in the postnatal growth. Doctoral thesis from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UCM, Spain, advised by Antonio Gonzalez de Bulnes, Cristina Óvilo Martín and Beatriz Isabel Redondo.
Impact of dietary supplementation of tributyrin on offspring immunity, gut microbiota, and diarrhoea rate in a sow model
Tributyrin supplementation in gestating and lactating diets may improve sow performance and litter intestinal health.
Effects of alpha-glycerol monolaurate supplementation during late gestation and lactation on sow, milk, and piglets
Alpha-glycerol monolaurate inclusion on sow’s diet may change milk composition improving piglet health.
Effects of different fat sources on growth performance and carcass composition of finishing pigs
Dietary fats with more saturated fatty acids provide higher energy values for growing pigs.
Diet and microbiota-gut-brain axis in relation to tail biting in 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.
Crude and acid oils from olive pomace as alternative fat sources in growing-finishing pigs
Crude and acid oils from olive pomace may improve meat quality and sustainability of the growing finishing period.
Fish oil in sow diets as a strategy to modify immune components in colostrum and milk
The n-3 fatty acids supplementation in gestation and lactation diets may affect colostrum and milk composition and the immune response.
Evaluating the benefits on gut health of a Prevotella-rich enterotype in finishing pigs fed a diet with a high amylose-to-amylopectin ratio
Enterotype and diet amylose-to-amylopectin ratio may affect intestinal heath driven by enteric positive short chain fatty acid production.
Impact of in-feed sodium butyrate or sodium heptanoate protected with MCFA on gut health in weaned piglets challenged with E. coli F4+
Sodium heptanoate and sodium butyrate protected with medium-chain fatty acids may have benefits on colonic microbiota.
How supplementing sows with fish oil affects fatty acid composition in piglets
Fish oil supplementation during late gestation and lactation alters the n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids composition in the red blood cells and livers of piglets.
Moringa leaf meal in finishing pigs’ diets: efects on performance and carcass composition
Inclusion of 6% moringa leaf meal positively modifies the fatty acid profile of pork meat.