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The experiment was a 2 \u00d7 2 factorial arrangement: \u00b1maternal exposure to dietary anise flavour and \u00b1intramuscular injections of piglets. Twenty-three sows and their litters (242 piglets) were randomly allocated to one of four treatments (n = 5 or 6 per treatment): no flavour plus no injection (NF + NI); no flavour plus iron injection (NF + I); flavour plus no injection (F + NI); and flavour plus iron injection (F + I). All piglets could access anise flavoured, iron-supplemented creep feed (organic and inorganic forms) from D2 of birth. Sow feed intake and milk anethole concentration, piglet body weight (BW) and average daily gain (ADG), creep feed disappearance, piglet behavioural time budgets, and piglet blood glucose and haemoglobin concentrations were determined. Over the four-week study, the only significant differences found were that iron-injected piglets had reduced blood glucose (p = 0.036) on D14 and that maternal flavour provision increased the frequency of piglet creep feed interaction (p = 0.023) and decreased the frequency of suckling events (p = 0.009). In summary, maternal flavour conditioning reduced piglet creep feed neophobia without influencing consumption. The supplementation of creep feed with iron and anise flavour to piglets under the conditions of this trial was effective in preventing IDA, regardless of exposure to maternal flavouring conditioning.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ani14091263","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,23]],"date-time":"2024-04-23T10:34:05Z","timestamp":1713868445000},"page":"1263","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Effect of Maternal Flavour Conditioning Combined with Organic and Inorganic Iron-Supplemented Creep Feed on Piglet Performance and Haemoglobin Status"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Ryan","family":"Kristen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7922-5610","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Roslyn","family":"Bathgate","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sydney School of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Greg M.","family":"Cronin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Evelyn","family":"Hall","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sydney School of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5376-8433","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Malcolm","family":"Possell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1797-1941","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cormac John","family":"O\u2019Shea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Health, Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone Campus, Dublin Road, Athlone, N37 HD68 Co Westmeath, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"585","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1439-0442.1966.tb00397.x","article-title":"Studies on iron metabolism in normal and anemic nursing pigs","volume":"13","author":"Ekman","year":"1966","journal-title":"Zentralbl. 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