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Supplementing sows with a combination of vitamin D3 and 25(OH)D3, effects on dam and progeny vitamin D status and muscle fiber morphometrics

Combining vitamin D3 and 25(OH)D3 in sow diets improves the vitamin D status for both the dams and their offspring.

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Gilt backfat thickness in late pregnancy, mammary development and piglet growth

Do gilts with greater backfat thickness produce more milk?

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Effect of lactation length on piglet performance until slaughter

Results show the importance of lactation length on piglets’ BW variability. Weaning at 25.5 d, equivalent to 7 kg BW, optimizes slaughtering pig performance.

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Facilities-Equipment Article

Feeding Systems for Lactating Sows (II)

Do you know which feeding system best fits your needs? This article describes and compares the systems that have been implemented in the last years: feeding ball, dry and wet feeding systems.

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Whole yeast product supplementation through gestation and lactation on sow and litter performance

Dietary inclusion of Pichia guilliermondii during gestation may improve prolificity while reducing low body weigh category piglets at birth.

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Nurse sow strategies: Consequences for sow welfare

No difference was detected between nurse sows and non-nurse sows in body condition or severity of lesions.

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Supplementing with life yeast both sow and piglet diets

Life yeast supplementation during gestation, lactation and nursery periods may lead to a greater piglet growth performance.

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Feeding CLA and MCFA in late gestation and lactation to sows on the growth and survival of their offspring

Feeding CLA to sows may improve the survival of their born-alive piglets.

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Fiber in the diet is important for farrowing performance and colostrum production

The fiber in the diet improves the colostrum yield of sows and it helps reducing farrowing length. But... how many grams of fiber are recommended to be supplied to the sows during last week prior to farrowing?

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Genetics-ReproductionArticle

The role of your farm on the sows' reproductive potential (2/2)

What is more important: the farm or genetics?

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Facilities-Equipment Article

Feeding Systems for Lactating Sows (I)

How to achieve the 6 kg average daily intake that today's high-producing lactating sows need?

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A comparison between nulliparous and multiparous sows cervix with regard to post-cervical AI

The future design of AI strategies and catheters should take into consideration the morphological variations of the cervix lumen, which will depend on age and parity of the females.

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