Piglets Nutrition Technical Articles
Article published the August 12, 2019:
Background and objectives
The reduction of antibiotics and zinc oxide in the swine farming practice is an emerging topic at global level. Among promising alternatives, fatty acids and their derivatives proved ...
Article published the August 9, 2019:
Background and objectives
The therapeutic use of zinc oxide in high doses (e.g. 2,500 ppm Zn) has yet demonstrated beneficial effects on growth performance in piglets as well as the prevention of post-weaning ...
Article published the August 6, 2019:
Nutritional strategies to minimize weaning negatives impacts on piglet’s health and performance are quite as important at piglet’s production system. At this stage, they are vulnerable to stress con...
Article published the July 10, 2019:
Introduction
Postnatal muscle growth and repair rely on the ability of satellite cells, muscle-resident stem cells, to activate, proliferate, and fuse into growing myofibers (Seale et al. 2000; Dumont et al. 2...
Article published the July 2, 2019:
Piglets face multiple challenges from the early stages of their life, actually since birth, a shocking experience in terms of temperature and change of environmental conditions. Besides that, piglets are born w...
Article published the March 28, 2019:
Considering the impact of taste enhancers
Commonly used in feed to enhance appetite by providing an attractive taste, the function of taste enhancers is to target the receptors of the 5 main tastes, namely: sw...
Article published the January 2, 2019:
Introduction
In nutritional programs for swine, antibiotic and anti-microbial additives that act as growth promoters have been used in sub-therapeutic and constant doses ever since the 1950s. In post -weaning,...
Article published the December 13, 2018:
The modern animal exploitation is characterized by a high productive intensity, regardless of the species. This makes the animals to undergo constant stressing situations that may result into a higher frequency...
Article published the October 10, 2018:
The modern animal exploitation is characterized by a high productive intensity, regardless of the species. This makes the animals undergo constant stressing situations that may result into a higher frequency of...
Article published the August 21, 2018:
Potassium diformate (KDF) is a specifically conjugated acid double-salt, patented by ADDCON and traded as FORMI on the European and world-market. Potassium diformate has been approved in the European Union as a...