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In the current study, β-glucan present in fermentation products from Ganoderma lucidum (GLF) was tested as a feed supplement to evaluate its efficacy on growth performance and immunocompetence in weanling piglets suffering from physiological stress during weaning. This article focuses on after challenging with porcine circovirus (PCV) type 2, a supplementation with 50 mg GLF per kg feed also inhibited PCV-2 virus amplification, Figure 1. Detection of PCV-2 nucleic acid in...
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Implications Nowadays, nearly one out of seven piglets dies before weaning in European commercial herds. Such a high mortality rate is a major source of economic loss and a subject for animal welfare concern. By providing energy and antibodies, colostrum plays an essential role in piglet survival. However, colostrum yield and concentrations of immunoglobulins were shown to be highly variable from sow to sow, and causes for this variability are not fully known yet. A better...
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Introduction Maintenance of general health and prevention of infectious diseases are critically dependent on intestinal homeostasis and proper immune competence. In this regard, early colonization of the gut by microbiota as well as the concomitant development of the intestinal immune system has been proven to be important [1,2,3]. Immediately after birth, the intestine is colonized by bacteria derived from maternal and environmental sources [4,5]. During the early-life period, the...
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Introduction The gut microbes of mammals are integral to the prevention of infectious diseases, maintenance of intestinal morphology, nutrient digestion and metabolism, immune modulation of the host (Nicholson et al., 2005; Romick-Rosendale et al., 2009; Hooper et al., 2012). Immediately after birth, the piglet gut is rapidly colonized by a complex and diverse microbiota derived from the sow and environment (Konstantinov et al., 2006). As the pig grows, the gut microbiota becomes...
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Background The process of microbial colonization of the gut after birth plays an important role in the development of the neonatal immune system of mammals with implications during their whole life [1]. Immediately after birth, environmental and maternal bacteria, including colonization via the vagina, nipple surface, and milk, quickly colonize the offspring gut and establish the initial microbiota of the piglet [2,3,4]. The intestinal microbiota protects against colonization by...
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The swine industry has largely gone to early weaning (3 weeks or earlier) especially in confinement production systems with environmentally controlled nurseries. Economic factors such as increasing the number of pig per sow per year and the need to maximize the capital cost of swine farrowing units by moving more sow through the facilities has...
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INTRODUCTION Highly digestible feed ingredients and feed additives are used to help young pigs transition from sow’s milk to solid diets (Skinner et al., 2014; Valini et al., 2021). Thus, the cost of swine diets is greatest during the nursery phase of production due to the complexity of ingredients, e.g., whey, blood plasma and industrial amino acids. As compensatory growth has been associated with increased feed efficiency, it is a mechanism that may help to increase...
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Introduction: Lactoferrin (LF) is an iron-binding glycoprotein which belongs to a transferrin family. It is available as a commercial extract from bovine milk or colostrum and offers potential as a therapeutic intervention for modulating infections and intestinal pathologies. It was also used a feed supplement for piglets. To date, an ability of LF to bind LPS and then induce cells activation via TLR4 is known. LF itself, however, is belived to be able to activate cells...
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Introduction: In a swine breeding, the piglets are those which require more nutritional care due to their physiologic immaturity and the enzymatic changes that take place in these first stages of life. The objective of this experiment was to assess the effect of the nutritional supplement VIUSID vet on the productive behavior of lactating sows and their piglets. Materials and Methods: For this work 54 Yorkshire lactating sows and 548 piglets were...
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Introduction: To prevent iron deficiency anemia, supplemental iron typically is given to piglets within 5 d after birth. Large piglets are at greater risk of iron deficiency than are smaller piglets; however, iron dextran injection protocols are highly variable. The objectives were to determine the within herd prevalence of anemia among piglets, and to evaluate the influence of a supplemental iron dextran injection on growth. Materials and Methods: The study...
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INTRODUCTION The pig’s weaning period is possibly the most stressful time of its productive life and is the foundation of a thriving lifetime of growth performance [1]. During this critical period, weaned piglets face a variety of problems, including post-weaning diarrhea and reduced feed intake due to an immature immune system and limited enzyme secretory capacity [2], both of which are economically significant in today’s pig industry. Therefore, it is critical...
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Introduction: Post-weaning complications in piglets are characterized by heightened susceptibility to infection, diarrhoea, atrophy of small intestine structure and reduction in body weight. The ban on prophylactic antibiotics and environmental concerns with usage of excessive zinc demands for identification of safer alternatives to treat post-weaning complications. Feed additives that maintain homeostasis between the intestinal epithelial layer, intestinal microbes and the...
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Introduction: Diarrhoea during the first week of life is a big concern in many Danish pig herds - not least since the suspected introduction of “New Neonatal Diarrhoea Syndrome.” The study investigates pathogens and management-factors associated with these problems. Materials and Methods: A total of 107 herds including 55 Case-herds with diarrhoea during the first week of life and 52 Control-herds without diarrhoea as a herd problem filled in...
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Introduction: Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are currently applied as probiotics due to their ability to survive in gut environment and antagonistic effects toward enteric pathogens. Difference of species and strains of LAB directly relate to host type in each geographical area. However, there has still been inconsistency between genetic and phenotypic identifications. This study aimed to determine and validate identification methods for probiotic candidate selection between...
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Introduction: Weaned piglets suffer many stressors such as sudden change of feed, change of pigs groups and passive protection decrease with ageing. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the inclusion of a free and buffered organic acids blend (OAs) to drinking water (DW) of weaned pigs on performance in presence or absence of medication to control enteric disease. Materials and Methods: One-hundred and forty (140) pigs in a conventional herd...
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Having more piglets at birth is important, and it is even more crucial to keep them alive and healthy until weaning. The challenge with hyperprolific sows is that they produce high number of piglets with a large variety of weaning weights. It is particularly those piglets with lower body weights that...
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Basic Role of Feed Formulation Feed formulation is a process by which our knowledge of the nutrition of the animal can be translated into feeding programs which achieve our production objectives. These objectives typically include optimizing growth performance and producing a final carcass that can be converted into safe, healthy and appealing consumer meat products. This must be done in a profitable manner that concurrently contributes to environmental sustainability and animal...
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Erik Rensink, Program Manager Young Animal Feeds APAC at Trouw Nutrition, explains the benefits of an Additional milk supplement for piglets
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Pathogen control is a crucial challenge faced especially in the young animal stage of production. Young animals are very prone to pathogen infection since their gut takes time to fully develop. In this TechTalk, Annafe Perino, Product Manager from Southeast Asia and Pacific, shares how organic acids work to support animals in managing gut pH, fighting pathogenic bacteria as well as controlling pathogen proliferation....
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In order to increase the performance reproductive sow, premature weaning of piglets has become common practice, generating stress and retarding the postweaning growth of the pigs. The stress generated by separation from the mother, the abrupt change in food, the inclusion of raw vegetative material in the diet, and the poor development of the gastrointestinal tract in piglets result in a disruption of the mucosa integrity and a reduction in the digestion and absorption of nutrients at the...
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