Nutrition and Management Strategies for Improving Performance and Health of Sows and Nursery Pigs

摘要

The research hypotheses are: (1) management of litter size and lactation length can affect sow and litter performance in a subsequent lactation, (2) nutritional management of reducing dietary cation-anion difference can enhance the Ca homeostasis of lactating sows, and (3) milk supplementation can improve the intestinal health and subsequently improve the growth performance of nursery pigs. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).