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Activated crystalline silicon dioxide mitigates weight loss in lactating sows

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2022
This study investigated activated crystalline silicon dioxide (SIL) supplementation in late pregnancy and lactating sows on reproductive parameters as well as the performance of suckling piglets. Eighty sows were assigned to two groups: control (CON, n = 
Lúcio F. Araujo, Luiz A. Vitagliano, Caroline Decaux, Fabiana T. Janssen, Yasmin G. de Almeida Sartore, Carlos A. Granghelli, Marcos L. P. Tse, Rachel S. B. Carvalho, Simone M. M. K. Martins, Cristiane S. da Silva Araujo   +9 more
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Effects of Feeding Bt Maize to Sows during Gestation and Lactation on Maternal and Offspring Immunity and Fate of Transgenic Material [PDF]

, 2012
peer-reviewedBackground: We aimed to determine the effect of feeding transgenic maize to sows during gestation and lactation on maternal and offspring immunity and to assess the fate of transgenic material.
Buzoianu, Stefan G., Gardiner, Gillian E., Gelencser, Eva, Lawlor, Peadar G, Nagy, Andras, O'Donovan, Orla, Rea, Mary, Ross, R Paul, Szabo, Erika, Ujhelyi, Gabriella, Walsh, Maria C.   +10 more
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Effect of feeding on reproductive performance of Cajamarca creole sows over two first reproductive cycles [PDF]

SPERMOVA, 2020
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects feeding in Cajamarca Black Creole sows on reproductive performance. Sows (24 nulliparous) were assigned randomly within to 2 treatments and maintained on these treatments for up to 2 reproductive cycles.
Manuel Paredes, Fiorela Romero, Luis Vallejos   +2 more
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A Comparison of the Behavior, Physiology, and Offspring Resilience of Gestating Sows When Raised in a Group Housing System and Individual Stalls

Animals, 2021
Being in a confined environment causes chronic stress in gestating sows, which is detrimental for sow health, welfare and, consequently, offspring physiology.
Xin Liu, Pengkang Song, Hua Yan, Longchao Zhang, Ligang Wang, Fuping Zhao, Hongmei Gao, Xinhua Hou, Lijun Shi, Bugao Li, Lixian Wang   +10 more
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Nurse sow strategies in the domestic pig: I. Consequences for selected measures of sow welfare

Animal, 2019
Management strategies are needed to optimise the number of piglets weaned from hyper-prolific sows. Nurse sow strategies involve transferring supernumerary new-born piglets onto a sow whose own piglets are either weaned or fostered onto another sow. Such
O. Schmitt, E.M. Baxter, L.A. Boyle, K. O’Driscoll   +3 more
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Factors for improving reproductive performance of sows and herd productivity in commercial breeding herds

Porcine Health Management, 2017
We review critical factors associated with reproductive performance of female breeding pigs, their lifetime performance and herd productivity in commercial herds. The factors include both sow-level and herd-level factors.
Y. Koketsu, S. Tani, R. Iida
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effect of farrowing environment and previous experience on the maternal behaviour of sows in indoor pens and outdoor huts

Animal, 2015
Outdoor farrowing huts facilitate a less restricted maternal behaviour in sows compared with sows kept indoors in farrowing pens. The aim of our study was to investigate whether there are behavioural differences between primiparous sows kept outdoors in ...
M. Wülbers-Mindermann, C. Berg, G. Illmann, U. Baulain, B. Algers   +4 more
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Dietary resveratrol improves antioxidant status of sows and piglets and regulates antioxidant gene expression in placenta by Keap1-Nrf2 pathway and Sirt1

Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2018
BackgroundResveratrol, a plant phenol, affords protection against inflammation and oxidative stress. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary resveratrol supplementation during pregnancy and lactation on the antioxidant ...
Q. Meng, T. Guo, Gaoqiang Li, Shishuai Sun, Shiqi He, B. Cheng, B. Shi, A. Shan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Weaned Sows with Small Ovarian Follicles Respond Poorly to the GnRH Agonist Buserelin

Animals, 2020
The GnRH agonist buserelin (GnRH), used to synchronize ovulation in weaned sows, attains only 70–80% effectivity, owing to several reasons of ovarian origin.
Tania P. Lopes, Lorena Padilla, Alfonso Bolarin, Heriberto Rodriguez-Martinez, Jordi Roca   +4 more
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Induction of lactational estrus in organic piglet production [PDF]

, 2009
The longer lactation period required in organic piglet producing herds reduces the potential number of produced litters per sow per year compared with that of conventional production.
Hermansen, J.E., Kongsted, A.G.
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