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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.

Feed flavor supplementation may enhance sow feed intake and improve piglet performance in hot seasons but not in winter conditions.

Arginine supplementation in weanling pigs may improve growth performance and intestinal morphology independently of the supplementation method (feed or water).

A combination of carvacrol, thymol, and cinnamaldehyde in weanling diets may improve growth performance, intestinal health, and gut microbiota in piglets.

Early socialised piglets may have better social skills when meeting familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics after weaning.

Multiple drinkers provided more frequent and longer water access along with decreased aggression near the water source.

Adding ramps to nursery pig housing is a simple way to speed loading of market hogs, while providing benefits to efficiency and behavior in the nursery.

Transmammary delivery of firocoxib to piglets reduces stress and improves average daily gain after castration, tail docking, and teeth clipping.

Gradually weaned pigs performed better around transitions than abruptly weaned pigs and gradual weaning resulted in beneficial long-term effects on behavior.

In the double nursing strategy every week one or more sows nurse two litters simultaneously from birth to weaning.

Co-mingling of unfamiliar piglets before weaning did not improve performance. Co-mingling and intermittent suckling increased positive behaviour after weaning. Intermittent suckling likely advanced gastrointestinal changes in the peri-weaning period.

In practice, delaying pigs from the normal production flow translates into higher feeding costs, increase number of days to slaughter and increased labour requirements reducing production efficiency for the pig operation.

No different bioavalilability is observed between dl-Met and l-Met for piglets.

Pre-weaning mortality (especially crushing by the sow) is higher in piglets raised in a multi-litter (ML) system until 9 weeks of age than in piglets raised in a single-litter (SL) system.

Increasing inclusion of field pea reduces dietary crude protein digestibility but without negative impact on performance.

Increasing weaning age has positive health effects and increase growth performance between weaning and 10 weeks of age.