Effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weight
Aim: Nutrition plays a key role in the production of pigs, especially in pregnant sows, where modifications in nutritional requirements can affect their productive performance. The aim of this study was to evaluate nutritional supplementation with soybean expeller in sows during the last third of th...
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| author | Santiago Masi Mignaco Ana Alba-Casals Alicia Carranza Julián Parada |
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| description | Aim: Nutrition plays a key role in the production of pigs, especially in pregnant sows, where modifications in nutritional requirements can affect their productive performance. The aim of this study was to evaluate nutritional supplementation with soybean expeller in sows during the last third of the gestation period and its effect on litter birth weight.
Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted on a farrow-to-finish farm, where 192 sows were equally assigned to treatment and control groups. Several variables were recorded at both the sow and piglet level. The treatment group consisted of piglets from 95 sows supplemented with soybean expeller during the final phase of gestation (20 days), and the comparison group consisted of piglets from 97 sows fed only with a commercial balanced ration (control group).
Results: Soybean expeller supplementation increased individual piglet weight by 190-270 g, and the increased number of live piglets could decrease the weight of each piglet. Moreover, the number of piglets weighing <900 g decreased by 10% as compared to the control group, indicating that supplementation could improve pre-weaning mortality.
Conclusion: Our results suggest that soybean expeller supplementation in sows during the last third of the gestation period could improve production performance, especially on organic farms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-64223e3f5bfd4cc98e7f6ac95a42d6852022-12-21T22:25:04ZengVeterinary WorldVeterinary World0972-89882231-09162020-07-011371245125010.14202/vetworld.2020.1245-1250Effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weightSantiago Masi Mignaco0Ana Alba-Casals1Alicia Carranza2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3412-6739Julián Parada3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0223-0128Departamento de Patología Animal, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto, Argentina.IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; The OIE Collaborating Centre for the Research and Control of Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in Europe (IRTA-CReSA), Barcelona, Spain.Departamento de Patología Animal, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto, Argentina.Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina.Aim: Nutrition plays a key role in the production of pigs, especially in pregnant sows, where modifications in nutritional requirements can affect their productive performance. The aim of this study was to evaluate nutritional supplementation with soybean expeller in sows during the last third of the gestation period and its effect on litter birth weight. Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted on a farrow-to-finish farm, where 192 sows were equally assigned to treatment and control groups. Several variables were recorded at both the sow and piglet level. The treatment group consisted of piglets from 95 sows supplemented with soybean expeller during the final phase of gestation (20 days), and the comparison group consisted of piglets from 97 sows fed only with a commercial balanced ration (control group). Results: Soybean expeller supplementation increased individual piglet weight by 190-270 g, and the increased number of live piglets could decrease the weight of each piglet. Moreover, the number of piglets weighing <900 g decreased by 10% as compared to the control group, indicating that supplementation could improve pre-weaning mortality. Conclusion: Our results suggest that soybean expeller supplementation in sows during the last third of the gestation period could improve production performance, especially on organic farms.http://www.veterinaryworld.org/Vol.13/July-2020/1.pdforganic farmspiglet weightproduction performancesow nutrition |
| spellingShingle | Santiago Masi Mignaco Ana Alba-Casals Alicia Carranza Julián Parada Effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weight Veterinary World organic farms piglet weight production performance sow nutrition |
| title | Effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weight |
| title_full | Effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weight |
| title_fullStr | Effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weight |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weight |
| title_short | Effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weight |
| title_sort | effect of soybean expeller supplementation during the final phase of sow gestation on litter birth weight |
| topic | organic farms piglet weight production performance sow nutrition |
| url | http://www.veterinaryworld.org/Vol.13/July-2020/1.pdf |
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