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Implementing drinking water feed additive strategies in post-weaning piglets, antibiotic reduction and performance impacts: case study

BACKGROUND: Piglets at weaning suffer many stressors such as sudden change of feed, change in group composition and the end of lactogenic immunity. These stressors may cause poor growth performance. There is a need for alternatives to support piglets during the weaning period. Organic acids are know...

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Autores principales: Mesonero Escuredo, Juan Antonio, van der Horst, Yvonne, Carr, John, Maes, Dominiek
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405451
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-016-0043-0
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author Mesonero Escuredo, Juan Antonio
van der Horst, Yvonne
Carr, John
Maes, Dominiek
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van der Horst, Yvonne
Carr, John
Maes, Dominiek
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description BACKGROUND: Piglets at weaning suffer many stressors such as sudden change of feed, change in group composition and the end of lactogenic immunity. These stressors may cause poor growth performance. There is a need for alternatives to support piglets during the weaning period. Organic acids are known to have a positive effect on performance through reducing the pH and their antimicrobial action. CONTEXT & PURPOSE: The purpose was to study the effect of the inclusion of a free and buffered organic acid blend in drinking water on performance of weaned pigs. Four-hundred and twenty pigs in a conventional herd were allocated after weaning to one of three treatments and monitored during 4 weeks: group (1) Full medication, group (2) organic acid blend + full medication, group (3) organic acid blend + reduced medication. Average daily gain, feed intake and water consumption was recorded at group level. RESULTS: During the overall study period live weight and average daily gain of the piglets was significantly higher (P <0.001) for treatment (3) compared to (1) and (2) (Table 1). Live weight was significantly higher for treatment (3) compared to (1) from week 2 of the study (Fig. 1). No significant differences were found for average daily feed intake. FCR for treatment (3) improved by 1.0 compared to treatment (1) in week 1 (P <0.05), while in week 2 and 3 no significant differences were found (Table 2). Overall, FCR was with 0.3 difference significantly lower (P = 0.001) for treatment (3) than for (1) and (2) (Table 1). Pigs receiving organic acids in drinking water had significantly (P <0.05) higher water consumption than group (1) in weeks 3 and 4 (Table 2). CONCLUSION & POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS: The use of a blend of free and buffered organic acids together with a reduced medication program improves growth performance during the first month after weaning compared to a control with full medication and a combination between organic acids and full medication. This implies that organic acids could be used as a valid alternative for antibiotic reduction in post-weaning pigs. The treatment also increased the drinking water intake. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40813-016-0043-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-53824752017-04-12 Implementing drinking water feed additive strategies in post-weaning piglets, antibiotic reduction and performance impacts: case study Mesonero Escuredo, Juan Antonio van der Horst, Yvonne Carr, John Maes, Dominiek Porcine Health Manag Case Study BACKGROUND: Piglets at weaning suffer many stressors such as sudden change of feed, change in group composition and the end of lactogenic immunity. These stressors may cause poor growth performance. There is a need for alternatives to support piglets during the weaning period. Organic acids are known to have a positive effect on performance through reducing the pH and their antimicrobial action. CONTEXT & PURPOSE: The purpose was to study the effect of the inclusion of a free and buffered organic acid blend in drinking water on performance of weaned pigs. Four-hundred and twenty pigs in a conventional herd were allocated after weaning to one of three treatments and monitored during 4 weeks: group (1) Full medication, group (2) organic acid blend + full medication, group (3) organic acid blend + reduced medication. Average daily gain, feed intake and water consumption was recorded at group level. RESULTS: During the overall study period live weight and average daily gain of the piglets was significantly higher (P <0.001) for treatment (3) compared to (1) and (2) (Table 1). Live weight was significantly higher for treatment (3) compared to (1) from week 2 of the study (Fig. 1). No significant differences were found for average daily feed intake. FCR for treatment (3) improved by 1.0 compared to treatment (1) in week 1 (P <0.05), while in week 2 and 3 no significant differences were found (Table 2). Overall, FCR was with 0.3 difference significantly lower (P = 0.001) for treatment (3) than for (1) and (2) (Table 1). Pigs receiving organic acids in drinking water had significantly (P <0.05) higher water consumption than group (1) in weeks 3 and 4 (Table 2). CONCLUSION & POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS: The use of a blend of free and buffered organic acids together with a reduced medication program improves growth performance during the first month after weaning compared to a control with full medication and a combination between organic acids and full medication. This implies that organic acids could be used as a valid alternative for antibiotic reduction in post-weaning pigs. The treatment also increased the drinking water intake. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40813-016-0043-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5382475/ /pubmed/28405451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-016-0043-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full_unstemmed Implementing drinking water feed additive strategies in post-weaning piglets, antibiotic reduction and performance impacts: case study
title_short Implementing drinking water feed additive strategies in post-weaning piglets, antibiotic reduction and performance impacts: case study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405451
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-016-0043-0
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