Biochemical status of the sow body with the use of vitamin and mineral supplement in the diet

Abstract

The diet of monogastric animals should be adjusted for vitamin and mineral nutrition during the period of growing and economic use. They affect all types of metabolism, especially in the last third of gestation of sows and the development of young pigs in the postnatal period. For sows throughout the period of gestation and suckling, it is important to include in the diet such biogenic element as folic acid, as well as a set of essential trace elements (copper, zinc, cobalt, manganese) and group B vitamins, the use of which during the entire production cycle helped to improve prolificacy of sows by 15.2%, the average increase was 8.8% and the safety of young pigs dairy period of cultivation is 7.2%, which reduced the cost of feed for growing one reared pig by 10.6-18.1 %.