Impact of feed intake in early gestation on maternal growth and litter size according to body reserves at weaning of young parity sows

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The effect of increasing the feed level (1.8, 2.5, and 3.2 kg/d) during early gestation in parity 1 (PO1) and parity 2 (PO2) sows on maternal growth and litter size was evaluated. A total of 361 sows were group-housed and fed a diet based on a corn-soybean meal (3.15 Mcal Metabolizable Energy (ME) per kg and 0.68% standardized ileal digestible lysine) from day 6 of gestation until day 30. Sows were weighed at weaning and on day 30 of gestation. Farrowing rate, number of total piglets born, piglets born alive, stillborn piglets, and mummified fetuses were recorded at farrowing. The effect of feed level on the total number of piglets born was also evaluated according to classes of body weight (BW), body condition score (BCS), backfat (BF), and caliper unit at weaning for each parity order. There was no evidence for significant effect of the interaction between feed level × parity on the variables related to maternal growth and reproductive performance (P ≥ 0.128). Greater feed levels linearly increased the gains in body condition (i.e., BW, BCS, BF, and caliper unit) between weaning and day 30 of gestation (P < 0.001). Farrowing rate was not influenced by the feed level (P ≥ 0.200) and parity (P ≥ 0.209). The number of total piglets born decreased linearly as the feed level increased (P = 0.041), whereas no evidences for differences were observed on piglets born alive among treatments (P ≥ 0.317), neither between parities (P ≥ 0.904). For PO1 sows, the total piglets born on BW classes (≤183 vs. >183 kg) and on classes of BF (≤11.5 vs. > 11.5 mm) were quadratically affected by the feed levels (P ≤ 0.041). In contrast, the number of total piglets born was marginally affected (linear; P ≤ 0.094) by the feed level in the different classes of BW, BCS, and caliper unit in PO2 sows. There was no evidence for differences for the interaction of feed level and classes of body condition (P ≥ 0.199) for PO2 sows. Similarly, no interactions between feed level and classes of BW, BCS, and BF at weaning were observed (P ≥ 0.233) for PO1 sows; however, the total piglets born were affected by an interaction between feed level and caliper unit class (P = 0.042). In conclusion, increased feed intake from day 6 of gestation until day 30 resulted in increased maternal BW gain but reduced the number of total piglets born. Furthermore, lighter and in a poor BCS PO1 sows at weaning produced fewer total born piglets with no benefits from greater amounts of feed.

Medienart:	E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Erschienen:	2020

Enthalten in:	Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:98
Enthalten in:	Journal of animal science - 98(2020), 3 vom: 01. März

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Mallmann, André L [VerfasserIn] Oliveira, Gabriela S [VerfasserIn] Ulguim, Rafael R [VerfasserIn] Mellagi, Ana Paula G [VerfasserIn] Bernardi, Mari L [VerfasserIn] Orlando, Uislei A D [VerfasserIn] Gonçalves, Márcio A D [VerfasserIn] Cogo, Ricardo J [VerfasserIn] Bortolozzo, Fernando P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:	Earlier gestation Feeding Journal Article K3Z4F929H6 Lysine Reproduction Total born Young sows

Anmerkungen:	Date Completed 25.09.2020 Date Revised 28.03.2024 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:	10.1093/jas/skaa075

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	NLM307386104