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Email

john.pluske@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences
ORCID

0000-0002-7194-2164

Prof John Pluske

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences

269 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    19. Slow compared to fast growing piglets consume smaller meals while maintaining similar meal frequency after weaning
    DOI: 10.1016/j.anscip.2025.09.020
  • 2025

    Journal article

    16. An additional iron injection seven days after farrowing can improve pig haemoglobin concentrations in the nursery period
    DOI: 10.1016/j.anscip.2025.09.017
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    222. Slow- compared to fast-growing piglets have reduced feed intake and poorer feed conversion in the first 14 days after weaning
    DOI: 10.1016/j.anscip.2025.07.223
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    203. Gut health in piglets in antibiotic-free diets
    DOI: 10.1016/j.anscip.2025.07.204
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Lowering the Dietary Crude Protein Content Whilst Maintaining Standardized Ileal Digestible Lysine to Crude Protein Ratios Improves Growth and Reduces Diarrhoea in Weaner Pigs
    DOI: 10.3390/agriculture15141516
  • 2025

    Journal article

    The Impacts of Feeding a Reduced Energy and Lysine Balance in Lactation on Sow Body Composition, Litter Growth, and Markers of Subsequent Reproductive Performance
    DOI: 10.3390/agriculture15141559
  • 2025

    Journal article

    A comparison of feeding acetylated high-Amylose maize starch and zinc oxide in weaned pigs experimentally inoculated with an enterotoxigenic strain of Escherichia coli
    DOI: 10.1093/jas/skaf181
John Pluske

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Review: Nutrition-based perinatal strategies towards antimicrobial-free systems in piglets
    DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2025.101699
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Lactobacillus and Saccharomyces fermentation products impact performance and the fecal microbiome in weanling pigs inoculated with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
    DOI: 10.1093/jas/skae394
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Additional intramuscular iron injections tended to improve post-weaning growth when administered at weaning, but not at day seven of life
    DOI: 10.1093/tas/txaf133

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