{"id":18168,"date":"2015-11-23T12:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=18168"},"modified":"2015-11-23T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:08:21","slug":"can-flaxseed-replace-antibiotics-in-starter-diets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/can-flaxseed-replace-antibiotics-in-starter-diets\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Flaxseed Replace Antibiotics in Starter Diets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hypothesized that feeding n-3 FA\u2019s to sows in the form of\u00a0flaxseed would allow for the removal of Ab\u2019s in starter feeds. Based\u00a0on the findings from this trial, we can neither accept nor reject this\u00a0hypothesis, as we found that in our high health herd, Ab\u2019s had no\u00a0benefit when fed for the first week post-weaning. \u00a0Results from this trial have clearly shown that in a high health\u00a0situation, the use of in feed Ab\u2019s post-weaning had no benefit,\u00a0regardless of weaning age. This experiment has also shown that,\u00a0at nursery exit (8 weeks old), piglets weaned at 3 weeks of age had\u00a0heavier body weights than those weaned at 4 weeks of age, which in\u00a0part may be due to the fact that piglets weaned at 3 weeks had lower\u00a0WBC, CK and AST counts relative to those weaned at 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Flaxseed-and-Antibiotics.pdf\">Flaxseed and Antibiotics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hypothesized that feeding n-3 FA\u2019s to sows in the form of\u00a0flaxseed would allow for the removal of Ab\u2019s in starter feeds. Based\u00a0on the findings from this trial, we can neither accept nor reject this\u00a0hypothesis, as we found that in our high health herd, Ab\u2019s had no\u00a0benefit when fed for the first week post-weaning. \u00a0Results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18170,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions\/18170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}