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Importance of “Gut Health” in Weaned pigs
Posted in: Nutrition, Pork Insight Articles, Production by admin on June 6, 2017
Summary
• Microbiome
– Abundant, diverse and dynamic
– Getting good at determining inventory and major factors affecting the inventory
• Gut Health
– Balance of “Good, Bad and Ugly ” microbiome members
– Efficient Digestion/Absorption
– Effective Barrier Function
• Challenge:
– Employ the tools now available to establish who are the good and the bad in the microbiome?
– Can this knowledge be used to establish management and nutritional strategies to improve production performance and resistance to enteric infection.
Andrew Van Kessel – Importance of Gut Health in Weaned Pigs-Nov 2016