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Gut Health

Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Young animals require higher protein concentration in their diets
The nutritional needs are quite different between young and more mature animals. Young animals grow and develop at a fast pace, gaining muscle, developing organs and growing bones while their brains and nervous system also develop. Therefor ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Effects of dietary probiotic, liquid feed and nutritional concentration on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility and faecal score of weaning piglets
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary probiotic blend and liquid feed program at different nutritional densities on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fecal score of weaning piglets.
Monday, August 8, 2022
Improving the efficiency of a candidate ASFV vaccine through feeding spray-dried plasma to pigs
Spray-dried plasma (SDP) is a highly digestible, high-protein level ingredient widely used in feed for weaned pigs. The benefits of SDP on growth performance, gut function, and immunity are well known.
Monday, August 8, 2022
Identifying suitable supplements to improve piglet survival during farrowing and lactation
Piglet mortality during parturition and prior to weaning is an ongoing economic and welfare issue. This review collates the current literature describing the effects of specific dietary supplements on key parameters affecting piglet surviva ...
Monday, August 8, 2022
The dynamics of the piglet gut microbiome during the weaning transition in association with health and nutrition
Understanding the composition of the microbial community and its functional capacity during weaning is important for pig production as bacteria play important roles in the pig's health and growth performance. However, limited informatio ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Feeding spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP) to pigs contributed to delayed experimental African swine fever transmission and progression
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a dsDNA virus that can cause high mortality in pigs of all ages. ASFV is primarily transmitted oro-nasally or indirectly by feeding garbage containing infected ingredients, biological vectors or fomites.
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Using nutritional strategies to shape the gastrointestinal tracts of suckling and weaned piglets
Throughout the world, piglet mortality and morbidity in large litters are a major welfare concern and source of economic losses. Gastro-intestinal problems rank amongst the highest causes of morbidity, mortality and antimicrobial use.
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Understanding host-microbiota interactions in the commercial piglet around weaning
Weaning is a critical period in the life of pigs with repercussions on their health and welfare and on the economy of the swine industry. This study aimed to assess the efect of the commercial early weaning on gut microbiota, intestinal gen ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Effects of dietary SDPP on nutrient digestibility and growth performance in nursery pigs
Most pigs are weaned between 18 to 28 days of age, while their intestinal digestive and immune systems are not fully developed, and it may take pigs 5 to 10 days after weaning to achieve the same dry matter intake they were consuming while ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
The peripartum sow marathon - Can a sow transition feed help?
The peripartum sow undergoes a marathon of physiological changes from late pregnancy through parturition in preparation for lactation and is a period of high stress and inflammation. A transition feed for peripartum sows provided from late ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
The impact of porcine spray-dried plasma protein and dried egg protein harvested from hyper-immunized hens, provided in the presence or absence of subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics in the feed, on growth and indicators of intestinal function and physiology of nursery pigs
The objective of this experiment was to compare the effects of spray-dried plasma protein (SDPP) and dried egg protein (DEP), without (AB−) or with (AB+) in-feed antibiotics, on growth performance and markers of intestinal health in nursery ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
In vitro supplementation with the porcine plasma product, betaGRO, stimulates activity of porcine fetal myoblasts and neonatal satellite cells in a divergent manner
These findings suggest betaGRO® supplementation may enhance both myogenesis in utero and postnatal muscle hypertrophy. In utero, betaGRO® may help increase the muscle progenitor cell pool, thus possibly enhancing the establishment of muscle ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The combination of spray dried plasma and reduced crude protein in diets decreases circulating cytokines of weanling pigs
During the initial 2 week post-wean, dietary approaches may be implemented to alleviate effects of weaning stress on pigs. Inclusion of Spray Dried Plasma (SDP) in the diet may improve diet palatability, increase amino acid digestibility, a ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Effect of spray-dried porcine plasma in peripartum sow feed on subsequent litter size
Nutritional strategies for sows designed to reduce peripartum stress are suggested to support postpartum recovery and productivity. Spray-dried plasma (SDP) in sow feed has been reported to benefit sow and litter performance. Stressed anima ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Review: Link between intestinal immunity and practical approaches to swine nutrition
Gaining a deeper understanding into the underlying mechanisms associated with intestinal function and immunity during the weaning transition is critical to help shed new light into applied nutrition approaches to improve piglet performance ...
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