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Liquid milk replacers an expensive tool in modern pig systems
In many cases, supplemental milk replacers add cost and complexity without addressing the underlying factors that determine successful weaning.
Animal Feed Manufacturers
Positive start to financial year for Cranswick
For all of its vertically integrated operations in poultry and pig meats, food products and pet food, Cranswick Group of the United Kingdom reports year-on-year increases in sales for the first quarter of its fiscal year.
Swine
Using creep feeding as a tool to manage piglet weaning
Weaning age matters, but the weaning method itself is secondary when creep feeding is managed properly.
Business & Markets
Germany’s pig population stable while farm numbers fall
Fewer of the nation’s farms are keeping pigs, and the number of finishing hogs is down sharply as many producers are making a significant loss on each animal sold.
Animal Nutrition Views
The real reason some piglet additives fail in commercial feeds
A good additive placed inside the wrong commercial feed is likely to disappoint.
Animal Nutrition Views
When does a piglet feed need more acidification, and when it does not?
Acidification works best when it supports a good diet.
Animal Nutrition Views
Are specialty proteins worth their cost in starter feeds?
If the ingredient improves digestibility, helps feed intake and reduces nutritional shock after weaning, the cost is justified.
Animal Nutrition Views
How low can crude protein go before piglet performance slips?
Once protein reduction starts to limit intake, amino acid balance or growth potential, you are no longer formulating cleverly.
Animal Nutrition Views
Feed intake matters more than formula elegance right after weaning
Right after weaning, the best formula in the world means very little if piglets do not eat it.
Animal Nutrition Views
The first piglet diet post-weaning should fix one bottleneck
The first piglet diet after weaning often fails because we ask it to do too many jobs at the same time.
Animal Nutrition Views
The importance of creep feeding for smoother piglet weaning
Creep feed teaches the piglet that feed comes from a feeder, smells a certain way, and can be eaten without the sow nearby.
Animal Nutrition Views
How trypsin inhibitors affect young animals
Piglets are highly sensitive, but broiler chicks and pre-weaned calves may be even more vulnerable.
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