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Roberto Besteiro, Tamara Arango, Manuel R. Rodríguez and María D. Fernández
This study characterizes the growth of weaned Large White × Landrace hybrid piglets from 6 to 20 kg live body weight (BW) under real farm conditions. Batches of 50 castrated male pigs and 50 gilts were weighed repeatedly over two 6-week breeding cycles. ...
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Octavio Carrillo-Muro, Alejandro Rivera-Villegas, Pedro Hernandez-Briano, Marco Antonio Lopez-Carlos and Beatriz Isabel Castro-Perez
The objective was to determine the effect of calcium propionate (CaPr) inclusion in the diet, at different periods on the growth performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality of finishing lambs. Thirty-six Dorper × Katahdin crossbred male lambs ...
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Georgios I. Papakonstantinou, Eleftherios Meletis, Konstantinos Petrotos, Polychronis Kostoulas, Nikolaos Tsekouras, Maria C. Kantere, Nikolaos Voulgarakis, Dimitrios Gougoulis, Leonidas Filippopoulos, Georgios Christodoulopoulos, Labrini V. Athanasiou and Vasileios G. Papatsiros
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of a commercial phytogenic feed additive (PFA) on the prevention of post-weaning diarrhea and oxidative stress in piglets. The concentrations of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and protei...
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Qing Gao, Daiwen Chen, Xuemei Ding, Zhiwen Xu, Aimin Wu and Keying Zhang
In order to study the effects of dietary folic acid (FA) supplementation on growth performance and immune status in weanling piglets, a single factorial randomized block design trial was conducted with six diets supplemented with FA at 0, 0.30, 3.00, 6.0...
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Immaculada Argemí-Armengol, Marc Tor, Diego Bottegal, Maria A. Latorre, Beatriz Serrano-Pérez and Javier Álvarez-Rodríguez
Peas are an alternative to soybeans to supply protein in livestock feeds. Immunocastration avoids surgical castration of male pigs and increases fat deposition in female pigs. This work aimed to assess the effects of pea inclusion on the amount of fat an...
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Daniel Rodriguez-Cordero, Octavio Carrillo-Muro, Pedro Hernandez-Briano, Alejandro Rivera-Villegas and Alfredo Estrada-Angulo
This study utilized fifty bull calves of the Continental × British crossbreed, with an average body weight of 147.0 ± 1.67 kg (BW), in a completely randomized design. The objective was to examine the impact of varying levels and duration of calcium propi...
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Yaqiong Zeng, Dingbiao Long, Bin Hu, Hao Wang, Shihua Pu, Yue Jian, Zuohua Liu and Shunlai Xu
Lighting is an important environmental parameter in livestock farming, which can affect the physiology and behavior of animals, and it can regulate animal production. To explore the comprehensive effects of light intensity and duration on the performance...
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Orawan Kumdee, Md. Samim Hossain Molla, Kulwadee Kanavittaya, Jutamas Romkaew, Ed Sarobol and Sutkhet Nakasathien
Rapid climate change may put future food security under threat, which emphasizes the significance of assessing the morpho-physiological and biochemical traits associated with maize tolerance against recurrent water stress at the early vegetative stage. T...
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Wanying Zhao, Christopher Choi, Lin Ru, Zhengxiang Shi and Hao Li
On dairy farms, calves are typically raised inside barns (either in individual or group pens), or they are raised in outdoor hutches. To evaluate the effect of all three of these commonly used rearing practices on calves, an experiment was conducted. A g...
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Yaojun Liu, Wenqiang Shen, Tao Liu, Rainer Mosenthin, Yinghui Bao, Peng Chen, Wenbo Hao, Lihong Zhao, Jianyun Zhang, Cheng Ji and Qiugang Ma
(1) Background: L-carnosine (ß-alanyl-L-histidine), a natural dipeptide, exists at relatively high concentrations in skeletal muscles, and has been shown to protect cells from adverse conditions due to its antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-glycation, and buf...
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