Page 5 of articles about piglet in Abstracts

Feed supplemented strains have limited ability to compete with the indigenous intestinal microbiota of piglets.

Ear tagging causes a dramatic increase in cortisol levels compared with handling alone in piglets, which suggests that this procedure causes substantial distress.

This study was aimed at evaluating the clinical protection, the level of Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) viremia and the immune response (antibodies and IFN-γ secreting cells (SC)) in piglets derived from PCV2 vaccinated sows and themselves vaccinated against PCV2 at different age, namely at 4, 6 and 8 weeks.

The aim of the study was to determine both environmental and infectious factors, influencing occurrence of bacterial enteropathogens in suckling piglets.

This study provides descriptive information on the practice of piglet castration across 24 European countries.

The current study demonstrated that the expression of some piglet-directed behaviour was influenced by the system in which a gilt was born and reared.

Dietary choline deficiency induces alterations in plasma choline metabolites which are evident at the end of lactation. Betaine and select FAs in milk are sensitive to maternal dietary choline deficiency and day of lactation. Alterations in concentrations of these nutrients may affect early-life neonatal development.

A better fit of nutrient requirements in early lactation improves sow milk yield.

Flavour inclusion in piglet diets is safe even at higher inclusion levels than those commonly used for the industry.

Collectively, SB supplementation could reduce the rate of gilts return to estrus, alter the composition of colostrum and enhance the growth rate of piglets.

Maternal vitamin D3 supplementation improves serum concentration in both sows and piglets but, does not affect their performance.

Dietary CLA enhanced cytotoxicity of peripheral blood lymphocytes perhaps through changing its fatty acid composition.

Enzymatic feather meal may become an alternative protein source for piglet diets.

Growing mixing level increased aggression, lesion and weight loss after mixing.

This study indicates that cross fostering was associated with lower risk for preweaning mortality.

Piglet pre-weaning mortality (PWM) is one of the major reproductive components that affects herd productivity in the swine industry.