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AGRICULTURE-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture11111146
Keywords
gilt progeny; lucerne; primiparous sow; weaning weights
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- Australia Pork Limited (APL, Canberra ACT, Australia) [2014/461]
- Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) from the University of Melbourne
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Feeding fiber and BCAA to sows during late gestation and lactation can improve litter weights at weaning. Supplementing primiparous sow diets with lucerne chaff may benefit their progeny performance, especially in terms of D21 weights. Additionally, the SIMLUC diet showed more effectiveness in improving the performance of primiparous sows compared to the control diet.
Feeding fibre and branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) to sows during late gestation and lactation, respectively, have been shown to improve litter weights at weaning. Therefore, supplementing primiparous sow diets with lucerne chaff, a feedstuff high in fibre, BCAA and tryptophan, may improve the performance of their progeny. Experiment 1 investigated the effects of feeding primiparous sows (n = 118) either (i) a control diet (CON); (ii) CON with 1 kg of lucerne chaff (LUC); or (iii) a diet formulated to have a similar digestible energy and BCAA content as CON + LUC (SIMLUC 1) until farrowing. The LUC and SIMLUC 1 diets improved day 21 litter weight (p = 0.055). In Experiment 2 primiparous (n = 111) and multiparous sows (parities 2-5, n = 112) were fed either the CON or SIMLUC diet (SIMLUC 2) from day 110 of gestation to farrowing (PreF), or to day 10 post-farrowing (PreF + PostF). The SIMLUC 2 diet tended to be more beneficial to primiparous compared to multiparous sows when fed PreF, as indicated by an interaction between diet and parity on day 21 average piglet weights (p = 0.078). Overall, SIMLUC is most effective in improving primiparous progeny performance as evidenced by their D21 weights.
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