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Behaviors and body weight of suckling piglets in different social environments [PDF]
Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2017 Objective This study was conducted to characterize the behaviors and the body weight of suckling piglets in different social environments. Methods Two groups of sows and suckling piglets housed either in individual farrowing crates in separate pens (1.8 ...
Joon-Ki Hong +5 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 +6 more
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Short- and Long-Term Effects of Split-Suckling in Pigs According to Birth Weight
Animals, 2023 Forty-eight litters were used, with a total number of 645 piglets involved in the study. The split-suckling technique was applied to half of the litters at the end of farrowing by removing the heaviest piglets over three periods of 1 h.
María Romero +8 more
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Utilization of milk minerals by Iberian suckling piglets
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2013 Little information is available concerning mineral metabolism in suckling piglets. The utilization of milk minerals and the mineral composition of Iberian (IB) suckling piglets were studied in two consecutive experiments at different ambient temperatures
R. Castellano +5 more
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Animal, 2018 We investigated the effect of offering supplementary dietary fibres to suckling piglets on their behaviour and performance before weaning. From 5 to 22 days of age, suckling piglets were offered a high-fibre diet (HF; 5% cellulose; n=5 litters), or a ...
C. Clouard +3 more
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Effectiveness of the liquid method of feeding suckling piglets
Науковий вісник Львівського національного університету ветеринарної медицини та біотехнологій імені С.З. Гжицького. Серія: Сільськогосподарські наукиThe article examined the dependence of sow productivity, the growth rate of suckling piglets, their weight at transfer to rearing, the consumption of precursor feeds, and their costs on dry and liquid feeding systems for piglets in the suckling period ...
I. S. Moisei +7 more
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Prevalence and impact of Rotavirus A and C in suckling piglets from Spanish farms: an epidemiological study. [PDF]
Porcine Health ManagBackground Rotaviruses (RVs) are a leading cause of viral acute gastroenteritis in mammals, including pigs. Infection with porcine RVs can result in a range of clinical outcomes, from asymptomatic cases to severe acute disease.
Marcos-Cienfuegos M +4 more
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Age dynamics of reproductive qualities of sows depending on the duration of the suckling period [PDF]
Технологія виробництва і переробки продуктів тваринництва, 2021 The article studied the influence of sows' age on their reproductive qualities at the traditional - 28 days and shortened - 21 days duration of the suckling period. It was found that the total number of piglets born increased from the second reproductive
Shvachka R., Povod M.
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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2021 Background Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) have been shown to modulate the intestinal microbiota of suckling piglets to exert beneficial effects on intestinal function.
Ren Gao +3 more
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The ingestion of sow's faeces by suckling piglets [PDF]
British Journal of Nutrition, 1981 1. Six sows were housed in solid-floored farrowing pens and fed daily with approximately 200 μCi 198Au, three of them from 3 d before farrowing until their piglets were 10 d old and three from 10 d after farrowing until their piglets were weaned at 21 d.2.
B F, Sansom, P T, Gleed
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