At 10d before farrowing, the sows were moved to individual farrowing accommodations where they were housed
under an automatic environmental control system.The
sows received 2.4k g of feed daily from the beginning of
the experiment unti l1d before farrowing.Upon farrowing,
they were initially fed 1.2kg of diet and 0.32kg of feed
was then cumulatively added each subsequent dayuntil 7d postpartum