Special Issue "Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility and Pork Quality in Swine Production"
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Pigs".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal nutrition; pigs feeding; ecological production; carcass traits; meat and fat quality
Interests: pig nutrition; feeds quality; carcass traits; meat and fat quality; nutrigenomics
Special Issue Information
Optimal nutrition, breeding strategies, as well as environmental and slaughter conditions have a major influence on swine production efficiency and meat quality. The high nutrition costs require optimal precision of feeding and feed quality and digestibility. Special attention must be payed to feed additives improving nutrients absorption and reducing both feeding costs and environmental feces’ impact. Prenatal and early-life feeding strategies can promote long-term animal health and digestive tract development, affecting its enzymatic and microbiome states as well as nutrients digestion efficiency and, thus, meat quality. Meat quality is a result of complex interactions between pig genotype, rearing conditions, feeding, age, weight, castration, as well as environmental conditions during rearing and slaughter. In addition, consumer expectations put pressure on innovative production strategies, taking into account animal welfare and environmental safety and intended for high-quality meat products, obtained considering ecological concerns or local native breeds. Genomic and proteomics analyses are promising methods for the evaluation of the effect of nutrition on the expression of chosen genes, metabolic pathways, and transcriptomes, broadening our knowledge about the influence of nutrition on animal phenotype. Noninvasive biomarkers could also be helpful to evaluate animal health and welfare and to early predict final meat quality and production results.
This Special Issue is interested in both reviews and research papers on all aspects related to pig nutrition during all production stages: modulation of gut physiology, integrity, immunity, and microbiota; feed additives regulating intestinal absorption and/or meat quality; strategies to improve meat quality; ecological and native breed production systems. It is also interested in omics analyses of the effects of feeding from any perspective. This includes papers on management strategies during prenatal and early-life feeding having long-term beneficial effects on pig productivity.
Prof. Dr. Eugeniusz Ryszard Grela
Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Świątkiewicz
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- pig production strategies
- pig feeding
- nutrients digestibility
- gut health, meat and fat quality
- nutrigenomics
- early life programming
- ecological production
- biomarkers of health and productivity.