Title
Digestive alterations and nutritional recommendations in low birth weight piglets
Other title
Alteraciones digestivas y recomendaciones nutricionales en lechones de bajo peso al nacimiento
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Quisirumbay-Gaibor J.
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
The intense genetic selection carried out in sows in the last decades has generated a hyperprolific sow with greater litter sizes and a greater proportion of piglets with weight lower than 1 kg, called low birth weight piglets (LBWP). The LWBP suffer from gastrointestinal morphophysiological alterations, which generates a lower digestive capacity in order to efficiently take advantage of the nutrients of the diet, affecting their productive performance and survival. This has triggered a series of research to find nutritional and feeding alternatives that allow this type of piglets to achieve better productive parameters. The objective of this document was to gather information about the most important digestive alterations in LBWP and the nutritional options to improve their survival and productive performance.
Start page
537
End page
548
Volume
30
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85072952656
Source
Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Peru
ISSN of the container
16823419
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