Bridging the Gap: Best Practices for Field & Research Trials | PSA 2020 Symposium Notes
5 talks from the 2020 PSA symposium, covering different perspectives on how to best conduct field and research trials.
Nutrition Newsletter - July
July Nutrition Newsletter is here! Make sure to subscribe to get access to the newsletter, where you can read the most recent animal nutrition research in a nutshell.
Nutrition Newsletter, June 2020
Hello everyone! This is our very first Nutrition Newsletter! The newsletter covers 13 papers that were just published in the past month, summarized in One Sentence each — swine, poultry, ruminant...it has it
A Review | Beyond sweetness: High-intensity sweeteners on farm animals
Interesting recent review that discusses an updated understanding of high-intensity sweeteners in animals. I summarized it as 5 key questions...
Can in ovo Vitamin D3 injection help improve hatch & chick performance?
The application of in ovo injection to deliver nutrients in the hatchery has been an interest in recent years.
2020 Midwest Annual Meeting - Gary Allee Symposium Notes
Talks from Dr. Steven Kitt, Dr. Ashley DeDecker, Dr. Clayton Johnson, and Dr. Laura Greiner.
38 Studies in 38 Sentences | Take Home Messages from the 2019 Kansas Swine Day
A total of 38 studies were discussed with a wide-ranging topics from nursery, grow-fin, sow nutrition and management to feed processing and swine health.
Weaning and Gut Barrier Development --- Implications for Lifelong Gut health in Pigs
The first 3 months of postnatal life of pigs represent the most important maturational period of gut development.
Low Protein Diet in broilers --- How low can we go?
The question remains as to how low can we go without compromising the animal’s performance? And, at the low-protein levels, are there any strategies to help maintain that performance needed?
Short-chain vs. Medium-chain vs. Long-chain Fatty Acids...A comparison study in sows
Each FA has its own stories and supporting evidences...which one works better in sows, for themselves as well as for their offsprings?
Architecture of African swine fever virus revealed!
All of the capsid proteins "form a complicated network..., stabilizing the capsid by holding adjacent capsomers together", that is probably why the ASF is so stable.
Novel supplement to enhance lipid utilization and growth performance in broilers
Would an exogenous bile acids supplement help with enhancing nutrient utilization and therefore improve performance in broilers