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Landrace \u00d7 Large White sows (parities 4 to 6; n = 53) were offered 40 g\/d CaCl2 (n = 28) or served as controls (n = 25). The morning before their estimated farrowing date, a blood sample was obtained from 25 sows for calcium measurement and a urine sample from 22 sows for pH measurement. The feeding of CaCl2 decreased urinary pH compared to the control group (p &lt; 0.001), indicative of an induced metabolic acidosis, but there was no effect of feeding CaCl2 on serum calcium concentrations or the incidence of stillbirths. Nonetheless, regardless of treatment, sows with higher serum calcium concentrations (&gt;2.5 vs. &lt;2.5 mmol) or lower urine pH (&lt;7.0 vs. &gt;7.0) had fewer stillborn piglets (p &lt; 0.001 for both). 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