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The study suggests lavender essential oil may improve the welfare of growing pigs. Inhalation of lavendar reduced the nasal microbiome diversity.

An hourly feeding regime could optimize sow productive performance, body condition, milk yield, welfare, and piglet growth in swine production.

Administering a second iron injection resulted in greater hemoglobin at weaning and the end of the nursery as well as improved growth performance from weaning to the end of study weight and increased carcass weight at slaughter.

The frequency of farrowing assistance in sows varied among herds and was influenced by parity number.

Postpartum administration of meloxicam to sows reduced clinical cases of disease, increased ADG in pigs, and increased carcass weight at slaughter.

Current zinc recomendations may not optimize growth in finishing pigs under thermoneutral and heat stress conditions.

Dominance rank of an individual can be estimated according to the feeding order, body weight or parity if there is enough variability in the group.

Frequent emission of short sounds can reduce time spent sleeping and cause behavior changes. However, gestating sows can habituate to the sound stimuli and return to normal behavior.

Enrichment did not enhance the speed of recovery from challenges in pigs, although there were indications of reduced stress

Results suggested that farrowing pens with temporary crating facilitated mother-young interactions and showed a higher crushing rate.

The provision of nesting material to sows prior to farrowing can increase sow maternal care traits and piglet performance.

Environmental enrichment with cubes appears to have the greatest effect when applied post-weaning whereas flavor attractants appear to have the greatest effect when applied both pre- and post-weaning.

Results suggest that drying piglets at birth is an effective method to reduce rectal temperature decline in the early postnatal period, especially for low birth weight piglets.

Change in electrical resistance in the vagina has the potential to accurately predict ovulation timing, but more work is required.

Results indicate that the pain-related behaviors in pigs from the UPAPS have different statistical weights.