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The present study showed that the physiology of piglets in the colostrum period was affected by IUGR status at birth, and their intermediary metabolism was altered due to different colostrum intakes.

Prenatal flavour exposure decrease neophobia for specific flavours.

Under the conditions of this study, more piglets are born during unsupervised hours when sows are induced on day 116 than when sows are induced on day 113.

The restriction movement showed a positive effect in the reduction in mortality.

Zeolite-ZnO could be a suitable substitute for pharmacological addition of ZnO in weanling pigs.

Insulin-stimulating diets did not improve prolificity and piglet’s quality.

Chitooligosaccharide supplementation of different molecular weight could be an alternative to antibiotics.

Suckling during 12 to 14 h postpartum is insufficient to maintain lactation and the process of involution that occurs in early lactation is reversible within 1 day.

L-carnitine supplementation does not directly increase the number of muscular fibres in weanling piglets with low body weight.

Those piglets supplemented with natural α-tocopherol in drinking water and born from sows supplemented with the same form of vitamin E (SS-SP) had the highest serum α-tocopherol concentration at five days post-weaning.