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The slaughterhouse suspected animal welfare issues as a high number of healed broken ribs were found during the meat inspection of a batch of pigs.

S. suis outbreaks are frequently associated with co-infections and stress factors identified as potential triggers, but the natural infection process is not fully understood, so, we wanted to know what the condition is for naturally affected pigs.

Many factors influence sow longevity and survival. So how important is targeted feed management to a longer life of performance?

Data sheet with the nutritional value (table comparison) and most recent studies about calcium carbonate.

This article reviews the effect of components of the diet on the bones and osteochondrosis, this being the main caused of lameness and a reason for the culling of young sows. Therefore, they are important concepts to bear in mind in the diets for the rearing of gilts.

Although we know that the amount and the quality of nutrients induce direct effects on health, the interaction of nutrition with epigenetic modifications is normally overlooked.

Adding organic iron in piglets drinking water during lactation may be an alternative to parenteral administration of inorganic iron.

The provision of trace minerals at the correct level and in their organic form is essential for the modern hyper-prolific sow: they have been shown to increase litter size, the quality of the piglet at birth and weaning and weaning weight and to reduce sow lameness and premature culling.