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Maternal imprinting of the neonatal microbiota colonization in intrauterine growth restricted piglets: a review
... neonatal piglets [81, ...IUGR piglets had delayed and lower amounts of colostrum intake than the NBW pig- lets [84, 85], which might be an important reason for in- testinal immune deficiency and ...IUGR ...
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Effect of Genotype and Sex of Piglets on Their Losses Before Weaning
... for piglets was ensured using heated plates, supplementary feeding followed from the fifth day after ...The piglets were weaned at the mean age of 28 ± 3 ...live‑born piglets, the number of reared ...
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The dynamics of changes in selected parameters in relation to different air temperature in the farrowing house for sows
... Newborn piglets have remarkably higher require- ments for ...domestic piglets in a pro- duction situation, the lower critical temperature is about 34°C (Curtis, 1983), and a room temperature of 18–20°C is ...
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Vaccination of Piglets up to 1 Week of Age with a Single-Dose Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Vaccine Induces Protective Immunity within 2 Weeks against Virulent Challenge in the Presence of Maternally Derived Antibodies
... Animals. Piglets were farrowed from sows obtained from commercial suppliers (Genetiporc, Morris, MN) in the United States; sows were pre- screened by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) for the pres- ence ...
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Genetic parameters including the service sire effect for the sow traits stillbirth and piglet losses in Czech Large White and Landrace
... against piglets died from birth until wean- ...of piglets weaned, because this trait is of high economic ...of piglets died until weaning should increase the number of piglets weaned which has ...
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Diarrhoea in neonatal piglets: a case control study on microbiological findings
... 29 piglets and found that 100% of diarrhoeic piglets ...control piglets exhibited enteroadherent enterococci in the small intestine when examined by fluorescence in situ ...101 piglets and ...
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Effect of Astragalus polysaccharide supplementation on growth performance and plasma parameters of weaned piglets under commercial condition
... weaned piglets is shown in Table ...the piglets, while the ADG of piglets in both groups was similar during the first 2 weeks post ...weaned piglets from day 0 to 14. Yin et al. (2009) also ...
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The assessment of dietary iron bioavailability using the piglet as an animal model for the human infant : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Master of Science in Nutritional Science at Massey University
... Haemoglobin levels mean ± SE; g/ dL in blood collected from piglets immediately after being removed from the sow and during a 25 day repletion period where the piglets were fed a bovine [r] ...
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Effect of a GnRH analogue (peforelin) on the litter performance of gilts and sows
... Previous studies have shown that l-GnRH-III treat- ment could increase FSH levels [13, 33 – 35]. Increased levels of FSH during the follicular phase increase follicu- lar size [4, 36]. It was hypothesized that treatment ...
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Maternal undernutrition and offspring sex determine birth-weight, postnatal development and meat characteristics in traditional swine breeds
... the piglets were weighed and measured for occipito-nasal length, biparietal diameter, trunk length, maximum thoracic diameter and abdom- inal and thoracic ...
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Genetic Parameters for Reproduction Traits of Prolificacy and Conventional Purebred Sows
... more weaned piglets per sow per year over the existing selection. The selection in our conditions showed almost identical pattern. A similar trend was also observed in hybrid sows. We analyzed the value of ...
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Design of a Radial System for Pigs on Sheepdrove Organic Farm
... At a month old piglets and sows to be moved to paddocks with large arcs to get used to being in large groups.. At two months the sows to be removed leaving weaned piglets in large arcs.[r] ...
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The comparative profile of lymphoid cells and the T and B cell spectratype of germ-free piglets infected with viruses SIV, PRRSV or PCV2
... PCV2 is a non-enveloped virus with a single-stranded circular DNA ~1.8 kb genome that is classified into geno- type PCV2a and PCV2b displaying only minor antigenic differences [13]. However, PCV2 possesses the highest ...
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Role of controlled cardiac reoxygenation in reducing nitric oxide production and cardiac oxidant damage in cyanotic infantile hearts
... 2-wk-old piglets to ventilator hypoxemia (FIO2 approximately ...hypoxemic piglets by either abrupt ReO2 at a pO2 of 400 mmHg (standard clinical practice) or by maintaining pO2 approximately 25 mmHg on CPB ...
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Metabolomic analysis of longissimus from underperforming piglets relative to piglets with normal preweaning growth
... The impaired growth rate in the slow growing piglet relative to its littermate is associated with a shift in the metabolome from central carbon metabolism to lipid oxidation and an incre[r] ...
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Analysis of piglet losses in farrowing houses with different technologies
... protect piglets, it is necessary to create a certain restricted space with local heating ...attracts piglets to ...because piglets want to be near their mother during the fi rst hours of their ...
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An association analysis of sow parity, live-weight and back-fat depth as indicators of sow productivity
... than milk production compared with higher parities, although many gilts still experience an increase in lactation weight loss and as a result delayed return to oestrus, reduced conception rate and embryonic survival ...
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Effects of magnesium on the performance of sows and their piglets
... In contrast, there were significant differences among the treatments in terms of sow performance (Table 3). Supplemental magnesium significantly increased the total number of piglets born, born alive, and weaned ( ...
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Impact of dietary l-arginine supply during early gestation on myofiber development in newborn pigs exposed to intra-uterine crowding
... alive piglets in combination with the corresponding BtW, IUGR occurred to a greater extent in IN sows compared with OL ...stillborn piglets, which was expected from previous findings associating increased ...
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Simultaneous estimation of genetic parameters for production and litter size traits in Czech Large White and Czech Landrace pigs
... No editing of production data was required as all records were in the required range. For litter size data to be retained for analysis, the following conditions had to be met: litters were purebred CLW or CLA and had ...
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