Caitlyn R. Sullivan

Gestational heat stress and phytogenic supplementation influence sow growth, bioenergetics, thermoregulation, and subsequent offspring resilience.

The study objectives were to determine whether a phytogenic supplement reduced physiological stress in heat-stressed (HS) gestating sows and to evaluate how HS alters maternal growth responses and postweaning growth and stress responses in their piglets. Twenty-six pregnant Large White × Landrace sows (parity = 2.0 ± 1...