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Animals, 2021 The effect of different cross-fostering strategies on the growth performance, stress and immunity of piglets was investigated in this study. In the first experiment, a total of 20 litters (i.e., 20 sows) and 120 piglets were classified into one of six ...
Xiaojun Zhang +2 more
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Myokine interleukin-15 expression profile is different in suckling and weaning piglets
Animal Nutrition, 2015 Interleukin-15 (IL-15) is a cytokine highly expressed in skeletal muscle. The objective of the present study was to investigate the development of muscle IL-15 expression in suckling piglets and in early weaning piglets (day 14) at each level, that is ...
Yehui Duan, Fengna Li, Bie Tan
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Effects of Probiotics on Growth and Immunity of Piglets
Animals, 2022 Growth promoting antibiotics are used in modern animal husbandry to promote growth and avoid infections. Negative effects of these antibiotics on human health are a big concern and they need to be replaced.
Masuo Sueyoshi, Masahiro Yasuda
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Animals, 2022 The study investigated the effect of farrowing environment on the weaning adaptability of sows and piglets. One farrowing crate (FC) and two farrowing pens with temporary crating (TC: SWAP and JLF15) were compared.
Heng-Lun Ko +4 more
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Comparison of birth weight and umbilical and placental characteristics of cloned and artificial insemination-derived piglets [PDF]
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 2019 Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)-derived piglets have significantly higher stillbirth rate and postnatal mortality rate than artificial insemination (AI)-generated piglets.
Zheng AO, Chengfa ZHAO, Yanmin GAN, Xiao WU, Junsong SHI, Enqin ZHENG, Dewu LIU, Gengyuan CAI, Zhenfang WU, Zicong LI
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Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2014 The aim of the study was to evaluate the behaviour, pre-weaning survival rate and growth performance of low birth weight (BW) piglets cross-fostered with piglets of higher weights.
L.P. Souza +8 more
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Vaccines, 2023 Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) remains an infectious agent with high importance in the swine industry. In this study, the influence of maternally derived antibodies (MDAs) on an experimental PRRSV-1 challenge is investigated.
Jorian Fiers +5 more
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Fat deposition deficiency is critical for the high mortality of pre-weanling newborn piglets
Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2018 Background The high mortality of pre-weanling piglets is a dominant challenge which severely restricts the development of pig industry. A number of factors including nutrients imbalance and temperature variation during postnatal period of piglets have ...
Ting He +7 more
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Effect of Genotype and Sex of Piglets on Their Losses Before Weaning
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2017 The aim of the experiment was to analyze selected reproductive characteristics in sows and losses of piglets according to their age and to evaluate the effect of sex on survivability of piglets before weaning.
Pavel Nevrkla +3 more
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Influences Which Affect Reproductive Characters of Sows in Studied Reproductive Breeding
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2016 The aim of the study was to evaluate influences which affect reproductive characters of sows in chosen reproductive breeding. These reproductive traits of sows were studied: number of all, live born and weaned piglets, losses from live born piglets till ...
Libor Sládek +2 more
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