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The effect of feeding salmon oil during pregnancy on causes of piglet deaths prior to weaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

R. Cordoba ,
S Pkiyach ,
J. A Rooke ,
S. A. Edwards ,
P. C. Penny  and
I. Pike
R. Cordoba
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5UA, UK
S Pkiyach
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5UA, UK
J. A Rooke
Affiliation:
Animal Biology Division, SAC, Ferguson Building, Craibstone Estate, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, AB21 9YA, UK
S. A. Edwards
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5UA, UK
P. C. Penny
Affiliation:
JSR Healthbred Ltd., Southburn, Driffield, East Yorkshire, YO25 9ED, UK
I. Pike
Affiliation:
United Kingdom Association of Fish Meal Manufacturers, St. Albans, Herts AL3 4PE, UK
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Pre-weaning mortality is a major source of economic loss to the pig industry which despite improvements in husbandry and farrowing crate design remains about 10% of piglets borne alive. The causes of death are multi-factorial (Varley, 1995) but a large proportion may be due to low neonatal vigor. Commercial pig diets do not normally contain long chain n-3 fatty acids, a deficiency of which has been implicated in reduced visual and neural development in premature human babies and in experimental animals. The objectives of the present experiment were to quantify the causes of piglet mortality in sows of modern genotype and to determine the effects of salmon oil supplementation of the diet of the sow, providing long-chain n-3 fatty acids, on this mortality.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2000 , 2000 , pp. 105
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2000

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References

Varley, M. A. 1995. The Neonatal Piglet Development and Survival. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxfordshire.Google Scholar