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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
BeneGut: An anti-diarrhea alternative for piglets
Since Danish scientist Poulsen reported in 1989 that high dose zinc oxide could reduce the diarrhea rate of weaned piglets and improve growth, the substance is widely used in piglet feed. Still, problems caused by high dose zinc oxide are r ...
Monday, April 23, 2018
Nutriad introduces new palatant for piglets at ILDEX Vietnam
At ILDEX Vietnam 2018, Nutriad unveiled a new product for its palatability range. Delistart® is a piglet feeding concept that links quick feed to starter feed, training the piglets to the new feed in the weaning period, resulting in 6- ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
A new alternative to boost piglets' growth found, and it's not antibiotic
A natural alternative to antibiotics shows promise of serving as growth enhancer for piglets, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Effects of probiotic Bacillus as a substitute for antibiotics on antioxidant capacity and intestinal autophagy of piglets
The objective of this study was to evaluate effects of probiotic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (Ba) as a substitute for antibiotics on growth performance, antioxidant ability and intestinal autophagy of piglets. Ninety piglets were divided int ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
AB Vista: Research reveals opportunity to improve iron status of piglets
Iron deficiency could be reducing the performance of piglets post-weaning, despite the routine use of iron injections and feed supplements.
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Cargill to expand piglet feed production line in China
Cargill is bolstering its young animal nutrition capability by investing more than US$15 million to add a piglet feed production line at its existing premix and nutrition facility in Tianjin, China.
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Young animal nutrition: right nutritional strategy for piglets
Weaning remains a critical phase in pork production association with digestive disorders causing growth retardation, diarrhea, and even death. Weaning increases susceptibility of piglets to a variety infectious disease due to the attenuatio ...
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Fat digestion in piglets: the importance of feeding the right fat
Adding fats or oils to an animal diet provides the animal essential fatty acids which are needed for growth and production. The digestibility and effectiveness of the fatty acids can differ between sources and vary depending on the maturity ...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Produmix PROCINA delivers complete benefit for piglet digestive systems
Produmix's R&D department has developed PROCINA, a new manufacturing process that considers every zone of a piglet's digestive system to achieve the highest effectiveness.
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Piglets weaning: challenges and strategies to improve health and performance
The weaning is a challenge period for the piglet and the stressor factors involve, mainly, the new environment with new social interaction and change of diet. The pigs are handling and regrouped many times during their productive live (Mart ...
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Babi®: 5-fold approach for healthy piglets
Post-weaning diarrhea, colibacillosis, oedema disease, streptococcus problems, ear necrosis,… Helping piglets to cope with these challenges becomes increasingly important, as there was a huge increase in number of live born piglets during t ...
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Relationship between birth order, birth weight, colostrum intake, acquisition of passive immunity and pre-weaning mortality of piglets
This study investigates the relation between birth order (BO), birth weight (BW0), colostrum intake (CI), level of passive immunity and pre-weaning mortality of piglets. The animals used were 551 cross-bred piglets [Piétrain × (Large-White ...
Friday, September 29, 2017
Piglet feeding: Think global, act local
Increasing litter sizes, increased genetic potential and smaller economic margins have drastically changed the rearing of piglets. Only by supporting the piglets from the first day they are able to achieve good growth performances. An intel ...
Friday, September 8, 2017
Opportunity to improve iron status in newly weaned piglets for improved production efficiency
Anaemia is still present in newly weaned piglets and can lead to significant reductions in weight gain. This article discusses factors limiting bioavailability of iron in feed, and nutritional strategies to improve iron status in piglets.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Diformates and 3rd generation acidifiers in antibiotic-free feeding - impacts in sows and piglets
With costs of pig production under increasing pressure, the nutrition of young pigs is of increasing interest, as this period is critical to the subsequent performance of the animals through to market. Optimising growth rate and feed effici ...

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