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Sow litter size is increased in the subsequent parity when lactating sows are fed diets containing n-3 fatty acids from fish oil

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JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE
卷 89, 期 9, 页码 2731-2738

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AMER SOC ANIMAL SCIENCE
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2010-3593

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fertility; lactation; litter size; omega-3 fatty acid; pig

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  1. Rivalea Australia Pty Ltd.

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Supplementing diets with n-3 fatty acids from fish oil has been shown to improve reproductive performance in dairy cattle and sheep, but there is little published literature on its effects in sows. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reproductive performance of sows fed fish oil as a source of n-3 PUFA prefarrowing and during lactation. From d 107.7 +/- 0.1 of pregnancy, 328 sows ranging in parity from 0 to 7 (parity 1.95 +/- 0.09, mean +/- SE) were fed either a diet containing tallow (control) or an isocaloric diet containing 3 g of fish oil/kg of diet (n-3). Diets were formulated to contain the same amount of DE (13.9 MJ/kg), crude fat (54 g/kg), and CP (174 g/kg). Sows were fed their treatment diet at 3 kg daily for 8 d before farrowing and continued on treatment diets ad libitum until weaning at 18.7 +/- 0.1 d of lactation. After weaning, all sows were fed a gestation diet without fish oil until their subsequent farrowing. There was no effect (P > 0.310) of feeding n-3 diets prefarrowing on piglet birth weight, preweaning growth rate, piglet weaning weight, or sow feed intake. However, n-3 sows had a larger subsequent litter size (10.7 +/- 0.3 vs. 9.7 +/- 0.3 total born; 10.2 +/- 0.3 vs. 9.3 +/- 0.3 born live; P < 0.05). In conclusion, this is the first study to demonstrate that feeding sows a diet containing n-3 PUFA from fish oil fed before farrowing and during lactation increased litter size in the subsequent parity independent of energy intake.

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