Results suggest that Iberian pigs are furnished with increased metabolic flexibility to face short-term stress.

AI-driven tools have the potential to enhance disease surveillance, reduce observer variability, and facilitate large-scale data collection in slaughterhouse environments.

Probiotic supplementation during the nursery period may enhance growth performance, reduce fecal odor, and improve carcass quality in pigs.

This study recommends a specific combination of drinking water temperature and flow rate for weaned piglets during cold weather for the consideration of animal welfare and production efficiency.

Pellet processing related with die thickness may become a relevant factor explaining maximum protein and amino acid digestibility in growing pigs.

Seasonal effects may be related to the abundance and population dynamics of wild boar and to seasonality in pig farming.

Oral probiotic supplementation may reduce mortality in low-birth-weight piglets.

These results instill optimism for the prospect of implementing gene therapies in utero to prevent or correct many human genetic diseases, specifically multisystem disorders such as mitochondrial diseases.

Canola meal may be considered as a sustainable protein source for sow diets without affecting reproductive performance and health.

Slurry bioacidification could reduce the need for sulfuric acid and carbon substrates to mitigate gaseous emissions from long-term manure storage.

Low-protein diets in finishing pigs may improve nitrogen efficiency without affecting performance and carcass quality.

Lactational stress resulted in increased cortisol in sow milk and saliva.

Dietary protein reduction together with amino acid supplementation may improve nitrogen retention in growing-finishing pigs.

Maternal vaccination mitigates the potential long-term impacts of influenza A virus infection on the microbiome and cognition.

Tannic acid supplementation may improve gut health in weaned piglets.

Buserelin has advantages in centralizing induced ovulation and thus improving fixed-time artificial insemination outcomes.

Increased dietary fiber supplementation in late gestation may enhance health and performance in sows and piglets.

Dry-cured ham peptides have potential as functional ingredients or nutraceuticals useful to combat oxidative damage in the body.

Dietary glutamine supplementation after weaning can improve pig health and pork quality traits at slaughter.

The computer vision system could be used as an alternative to the manual scoring of cranioventral pulmonary consolidation during slaughter inspections.

Amino acid balanced low protein diets may reduce nitrogen excretion without affecting efficiency in finishing pigs.

Light spectrum seems to have limited effects on behaviour, health and growth of growing-finishing pigs kept in commercial conditions with limited space and a relatively barren environment.

Bacillus-based probiotic supplementation may reduce rotavirus effects in weaned piglets.

A new clinical case definition for PRRSV outbreaks in swine breeding herds has been proposed using a system based on KPI signals that will trigger diagnostics.

Co-supplementation of B. Subtilis and L-arginine in gestating sows may improve reproductive performance and litter quality.

The study provides insight into the patterns of human-mediated movement of feral swine across the US and from Canada to the northern areas of the US.

This study highlights the potential of alternative and more sustainable packaging materials to enhance meat product preservation.

Under the conditions of this study, the electrostatic precipitators efficiently removed IAV aerosol particles and delayed the onset of IAV and PRRSV infections in the sentinel pigs.

Dietary high oleic soybean oil supplementation in growing-finishing diets may improve pork quality and shift pork fat toward higher unsaturated fatty acids and lower saturated fatty acids.

Only some of the measured nutritive and non-nutritive sow factors influenced litter performance and behaviour, with parity and litter size also playing a role.

Dietary oil supplementation improves gut health at cold temperatures in growing-finishing pigs.

Beneficial bacteria are transmitted from mothers to offspring and persist through early developmental stages, thereby emphasizing the long-lasting impact of maternal microbiome.

Lycopene supplementation may smooth intestinal challenges and intestinal injury in weanling pigs.

The method will substantially facilitate the development of therapeutics or subunit and live-attenuated vaccines for ASF.

Glutamine and glutamate supplementation in late gestation and lactation improves sow performance and piglet growth.

Changes in animal husbandry practices for swine make it necessary to validate or update these dimensions for modern animals.

This final project from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at CEU Cardenal Herrera University was supervised by Antonio González de Bulnes López.

Astragalus polysaccharide supplementation may improve growth performance and carcass and meat quality in finishing pigs.

Boar breeding environments affect the stress response and emotionality of their offspring.

Net energy is paramount for appropriate growth gain and final body weight in finishing pigs, without affecting nutrient digestibility and gas emissions.

The PRRSV outbreak in the source was associated with a grow-finish antibiotic usage increase.

Prebiotic xylo-oligosaccharides may enhance growth performance and gut health in weaning piglets.

This work investigates the epidemiology of specific and emerging coronaviruses in the pig population. Final thesis at the University of Padua, Italy, advised by Michele Drigo.

The downregulation of muscular candidate genes in the inguinal tissue clarifies the genetic mechanisms involved with this anomaly in its primary site.

Arginine in sows diet improves milk composition, promoting a healthier and more balanced gut microbiome at weaning.

A novel quick in-pen laser test to assess piglet personality traits while minimizing environmental and handling interferences.

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens effects on pig growth and meat quality.

Grinding teeth decreased the teat lesion score on day 21 of lactation but did not influence the mortality rate or litter weight gain.

Metabolic benefits of niacinamide in low-protein diets.

Prioritizing resources towards systems frequently confronting influenza problems and targeting pivotal source farms could be an effective strategy for controlling influenza.

Fiber-rich diets at weaning may become successful feeding strategy in piglets.

This case reports the level of ergot alkaloids and duration of exposure found under field conditions in a herd that experienced a high neonatal mortality event consequent to agalactia in the sows.

Maternal L-malic acid consumption during gestation improves offspring muscle development and metabolic health.

This work presents a systematic review of the available scientific literature on the long-distance airborne transmission of PRRSV. Final thesis at the College of Veterinary Medicine, UAB, Spain, advised by Enric Mateu.

Certain advanced mass-spectrometry-based analytical tools have been found useful to characterise and authenticate a variety of meat products.

Fermented pine needles may improve meat tenderness and antioxidant status without affecting carcass traits in finishing pigs.

Ramp exposure during the nursery phase reduced ramp loading duration at market weight.

Cottonseed protein isolate may be a suitable alternative to cottonseed meal in growing pigs.

Contact to female groups and higher space allowance were key mitigating factors.

Fermented feed materials containing Pediococci and Lactobacilli may improve gut health and growth performance in weanling pigs.