This study was conducted to explore the possibility of dietary supplementation with fermented herbal residues (HR) in pregnant sows. Sixty crossbred pregnant sows with close expected date of delivery during 1A parities were used and randomly allocated to one of three groups, representing the control group, HR group and fermented HR group, to de-termine the effects of HR and fermented HR, from Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Leonurus Artemisia and Lonicera Japonica, on plasma biochemical parameters and antioxidant indexes in peripar...