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BMC Veterinary Research, 2018 Background Postpartum dysgalactia syndrome (PDS) in sows is difficult to diagnose and the pathogenesis is obscure. Hormonal changes related to the disease are often difficult to distinguish from those found in the normal transition period from gestation ...
Marianne Kaiser +8 more
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Sows with high milk production had both a high feed intake and high body mobilization
Animal, 2017 Selection for increased litter size have generated hyper-prolific sows that nurses large litters, however limited knowledge is available regarding the connection between milk production, feed intake and body mobilization of these modern sows.
A.V. Strathe, T.S. Bruun, C.F. Hansen
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Nutritional strategies to alleviate oxidative stress in sows
Animal Nutrition, 2021 The performance of high-yielding sows is directly related to the productivity of pig farming. Fetal development mainly occurs during the last month of pregnancy, and the aggressive metabolic burden of sows during this stage eventually leads to systemic ...
Qihui Li +4 more
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Seasonal effects on fertility in gilts and sows.
Journal of reproduction and fertility. Supplement, 2020 The ancestral wild pig is a short day length seasonal breeder. The domestic pig appears to have retained some of this seasonality as evidenced by a reduction in fertility during the summer-autumn period. The most important aspect of this seasonality is a
R. Love, Gareth Evans, C. Klupiec
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Ovarian follicular growth in sows.
Reproduction (Cambridge, England) Supplement, 2020 The resumption of ovarian follicular development during lactation and after weaning in sows is a complex process that ultimately determines rebreeding efficiency of sows.
M. Lucy, J. Liu, C. Boyd, C. J. Bracken
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Resilience effects of SGK1 and TAP1 DNA markers during PRRSV outbreaks in reproductive sows [PDF]
, 2020 The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a major infectious stressor that causes serious health problems and productivity drops. Based on previous genome-wide analyses, we selected SGK1 and TAP1 as candidate genes for resilience,
Estany Illa, Joan +3 more
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Effects of nutrition on pregnant and lactating sows.
Journal of reproduction and fertility. Supplement, 2020 It has been suggested that the long-term reproduction of the sow is best served by minimizing weight and fat loss in lactation. Such a strategy would require only a minimal restoration of weight in the following pregnancy, which would be beneficial ...
S. Einarsson, T. Rojkittikhun
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Animals, 2020 This study was designed to evaluate the effects of Bacillus licheniformis-fermented products (BLFP) and postpartum dysgalactia syndrome (PDS) on litter performance traits, milk composition, and fecal microbiota in sows in a commercial farrow to finish ...
Yu-Hsiang Yu +4 more
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Porcine Health Management, 2020 Our objectives in this review are 1) to define the four components of sow lifetime performance, 2) to organize the four components and other key measures in a lifetime performance tree, and 3) to compile information about sow and herd-level predictors ...
Y. Koketsu, R. Iida
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Czech Journal of Animal Science, 2020 Myostatin (MSTN) is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth and development. A significant increase in skeletal muscle was observed in Mstn-/- mice compared with wild-type mice. So far, there has been no report on porcine MSTN mutations leading to
Hanfang Bi +8 more
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