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Effect of offering maize, linseed or tuna oils throughout pregnancy and lactation on sow and piglet tissue composition and piglet performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

J. A. Rooke ,
M. Shanks  and
S. A. Edwards
J. A. Rooke
Affiliation:
Animal Biology Division, Scottish Agricultural College, Craibstone Estate, Aberdeen AB21 9YA, UK
M. Shanks*
Affiliation:
Animal Biology Division, Scottish Agricultural College, Craibstone Estate, Aberdeen AB21 9YA, UK
S. A. Edwards*
Affiliation:
Animal Biology Division, Scottish Agricultural College, Craibstone Estate, Aberdeen AB21 9YA, UK
*
† Present addresses: Animal Biology Division, SAC, Bush Estate, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK.
† Department of Agriculture, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU, UK.
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Abstract

The effects of different dietary essential fatty acids on piglet tissue composition at birth and performance until 7 days post weaning were investigated by offering the sow diets containing (17·5 g oil per kg diet) either maize oil (MO) as a control treatment, tuna oil (TO) as a source of long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, particularly 22:6 n-3, or a mixture of maize and linseed oils (LO) which supplied the same amount of n-3 acids as TO but in the form of 18:3 n-3. Ten sows were allocated to each treatment which was offered throughout pregnancy and lactation. Compared with MO, offering TO increased sow plasma and subcutaneous adipose tissue 22: 6 n-3 proportions whereas LO increased 18: 3 n-3 and, to a much lesser extent than TO, 22: 6 n-3. Offering TO to the sow increased the proportions of 20: 5 n-3 and 22: 6 n-3 in piglet brain and liver at birth and decreased the n-6 acids, 20: 4, 22: 4 and 22: 5. LO only increased piglet liver 20: 5 n-3 proportions but to a lesser extent than TO; however, LO also decreased the proportions of 20: 4, 22: 4 and 22: 5 n-6 in piglet tissues. Offering the pregnant sow dietary 18: 3 n-3 therefore increased deposition of 22: 6 n-3 in foetal piglet tissues to a much lesser extent than tuna oil and so it is necessary to offer the sow pre-formed 22: 6 n-3 in order to achieve maximum foetal 22: 6 n-3 deposition. By experimentally allocating piglets at birth, effects of sow nutrition during pregnancy and lactation were separated. Piglets sucking MO or TO sows were heavier than piglets sucking LO sows 7 days post weaning.

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fatty acidslinseed oilpigspregnancytuna oil

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Non-ruminant nutrition, behaviour and production
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Animal Science , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , October 2000 , pp. 289 - 299
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 2000

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