Molecular Nutrition

Nutritional Regulation of Within-Litter Weight Variation for Hyperprolific Sows

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  • Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Key laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of Ministry of Education, Chengdu 611130, China

Received date: 2016-12-23

  Online published: 2017-07-05

Abstract

With the development of modern breeding technology, the live litter size of sows is increasing. However, it is accompanied by a larger variance of birth weight within a litter, resulting in increased before-weaning mortality and larger discrepancy of body weight at weaning. These consequences make it difficult to achieve higher nutritional and management efficiency and more economic benefits. In this paper, we summarized the primary factors affecting the within-litter variance of birth weight, discuss the effects and related mechanisms of dietary energy source, protein and amino acid levels and functional additives in order to reducing the within-litter variance of birth weight, which may provide a reference for improving the uniformity of newborn pigs through nutritional manipulation.

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YUAN Peiqiang, CHE Lianqiang, FENG Bin, LI Jian, LIN Yan, XU Shengyu, WU De, FANG Zhengfeng . Nutritional Regulation of Within-Litter Weight Variation for Hyperprolific Sows[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2017 , 29(7) : 2237 -2244 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2017.07.004

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