Can short-term fiber supplementation improve farrowing?
Fiber has been associated with a reduction of stillborn pigs which may be explained by a potential decrease in farrowing duration.
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Fiber has been associated with a reduction of stillborn pigs which may be explained by a potential decrease in farrowing duration.
The 83rd Minnesota Nutrition Conference focused on challenges, opportunities of using fats and oils in modern feeding programs for pigs.
The 2021 International Conference on Swine Nutrition was held in honour of Prof John Patience, who recently retired from Iowa State University. In his farewell presentation, he zoomed in on fibre and energy in swine diets.
Minimum linoleic acid intake level should be targeted for 90-95% of sows. Eric van Heugten, David Rosero, and R. Dean Boyd, North Carolina State University, The Hanor Company | Mar 04, 2021 We reported previously in National Hog Farmer on a major milestone that was achieved with the discovery that two essential fatty acids (EFA) are deficient in lactation diets of sows experiencing moderate heat stress. These EFA, linoleic and α-linolenic acid, are directly involved in a variety of reproduction processes, and a deficiency results in poor return to estrus, low farrowing rate, and decre...