Evaluation of the Nutritional Supplement VIUSID Vet Powder on the Productive Behaviour of Sows and Boars

Abstract

Abstract:The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of administering VIUSID vet powder on the productive behaviour of sows and the quality of semen of boars. Two experiments were conducted on farms in the province of Sancti Spiritus, in the central region of Cuba. One was with sows, starting 21 days before parturition until weaning, and another was with boars in directed mounting. Each sow received 10 grams of VIUSID vet powder everyday, mixed with food, from 21 days before the probable date of farrowing and until weaning (33-day lactation period). In the boars, the treatment consisted of administering 10 grams of VIUSID vet powder with feed, once a day for 6 weeks (week 1 to 6); from week 7 onwards, the supplement was suspended. Results showed that, supplying VIUSID vet powder significantly improved the principal post-partum productivity indicators and significantly reduced diarrhoea and administration to boars in production for 6 weeks, which has improved spermatic motility and does not affect the other variables representative of the quality of the semen.

Evaluation of the VIUSID Vet (Powder and Solution) Nutritional Supplement in Growing-Finishing Pigs

“…The supplement has been shown to have beneficial effects on key performance indicators in several pig categories such as farrowing rate and piglets [7], newly weaned pigs [8], replacement gilts [9] and fattening pigs [10,11]. All these studies used VIUSID Vet powder, and there are no published references to research using VIUSID Vet solution mixed with feed.…”