Morakot Nuntapaitoon

Introduction: Colostrum is the first milk secreted by the mammary gland of the sow from 0 up to 12–24 h postpartum. Colostrum is a source of digestible nutrients and various compounds, e.g., immunoglobulins, hormones and growth factors. Thus, it plays a key role in piglet thermoregulation, the acquisition of passive immunity and intestinal development. Induction of parturition by using prost ...

Introduction:The loss of backfat thickness in sows during lactation period is commonly observed in swine commercial herds under tropical climate. High backfat loss in lactating sows contribute to increase weaning-to-estrus interval. However, increasing the amount of feed during late gestation may cause high backfat thickness at farrowing, and lead to dystocia. Arginine is a precursor for nitric ox ...