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Daily walks through pig pens are an important part of a successful nursery or grow finish operation. Consistently observing your animals and their environment can help you prevent many challenges. “The pig barn environment is the No. 1...
PUSH® sow feed is a unique combination of nutritional technologies that, when fed to sows pre-farrow through weaning, have shown to increases the number of pigs weaned and may result in heavier pigs at weaning, without negative impact on sow body...
Did you know pigs can gain ¼ pound less per day in hot weather compared to any other season? Knowing exactly how heat impacts your growing pigs and finishing pigs can help you adjust strategies to reduce symptoms of heat stress in pigs and ...
In a recent survey, 85% of participants said early pig feed intake is a challenge.1 If you agree, you are right to seek solutions. Nursery pig performance is the foundation of grower pig and finishing pig performance. Each production phase exponen...
Feeding pigs is more of a marathon than a sprint. The race to market weight can take nearly 200 days, and it all begins with a successful start. To successfully get piglets off to the best start possible, focus should be put on piglet growth prio...
Feed conversion is a measurement of the amount of feed needed for an animal to gain one pound of bodyweight. A low feed conversion ratio indicates your pigs are efficiently turning feed into bodyweight. A high feed conversion ratio means your pigs...
The pig microbiome is an intriguing area of science. How does it function? In what ways does it impact pig performance? While many discoveries have been made in this area, we’re just scratching the surface and don’t yet have a full unders...
The challenge with pig feed intake at weaning On average, pig feed intake in the first 3–4 days after weaning is too low to meet the pig’s energy requirements for maintenance and growth2 because pigs have been stressed by removal from th...
The standard of weaning pigs at 21 days coincides with a low point in the development of a pig’s immune system. The pig is “immunodeficient” or susceptible to illness during this time. In the first weeks of life, the pig&rs...
Motherhood is never easy, but for sows can get even harder during hot summer weather. Heat stress sets off a cascade of events for the sow: Body temperature regulation kicks in, pulling a sow’s energy away from body conditio...