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Sunday, August 21, 2016
On the quest to find a high quality soy protein for piglets
Young animals like piglets need special care in feeding. At weaning stage, piglets need to cope with the change from suckling milk to eating solid feeds while their digestive system is not fully developed. This is also the reason why piglet ...
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Young piglet feeding in relation to a more cautious and restricted use of (feed) antibiotics
Antibiotics in feed is often the lowest cost option to promote the health of pigs and to prevent bacterial diseases. In new born piglets and weanling pigs health is most at risk compared to later stages of life. From all age categories of p ...
Friday, August 19, 2016
Cut indigestible protein - and do piglet health a favour
One of the most important parameters when evaluating feed ingredients is the digestibility of the nutrients they contain. Published in nutrition guides, these digestibility values are often used in research projects to verify published data ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
China Whey Weekly: Cautious mood, limited piglet numbers hamper demand (week ended Jul 25, 2016)
Prices were flat.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Making room for feed additives in piglet diet formulation
Organic acid use in piglet diets can be considered routine nowadays. Yet, high levels of organic acids in feed formulation take up a lot of otherwise useful space in the feed. Replacing a portion of organic acids with a more powerful additi ...
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Nuscience introduces Babistar Pro piglet feed
Nuscience introduces Babistar Pro, a piglet feed that combines a good feed intake with high digestibility and intestinal health support.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Nutritional factors and piglet intestinal development
This topic was presented at Hamlet Protein's seminar "Gut physiology development in young pigs - why is weaning age and digestibility so important?" at the World Pork Expo 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
China Whey Weekly: Demand for quality piglet feed underpins prices (week ended May 9, 2016)
Demand for whey remained stable despite limited hog feed consumption, as farmers were more willing to spend on quality piglet feed with profitability high and piglet prices shooting over RMB60/head. Hence, whey prices were firm as feed mill ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Effect of Mycofix Focus on performance of weaning piglets fed diets contaminated with fumonisins
According to the 10-year mycotoxin survey programme conducted by BIOMIN, fumonisins (FUM) have been found to be highly prevalent across the world, particularly in Asia and South America. FUM are mostly identified in corn and corn by-product ...
Monday, April 11, 2016
Supplementation of phytase on diet improves the apparent ileal digestibility of amino acids and P in growing piglets
The present study evaluated the effect of dietary phytase supplementation on the performance, apparent ileal digestibility (AID) of amino acids (AA) and P of growing piglets. A total of 32 growing piglets with a mean body weight (18.36±1.39 ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Effect of SILICA+ on piglet growth performance
SILICA+ is an activated mineral capable of enhancing the rate of various biochemical reactions, nutrient and ionic transport across the gut epithelial cell membrane helping in rapidly restoring biological homeostasis. The technology used by ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
AB Vista to reveal new research concerning mineral utilisation in piglet diets
New research into optimising piglet performance and trace mineral nutrition will be presented by AB Vista at this year's Pig Focus Asia conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 21-23.
Monday, February 22, 2016
China Whey Weekly: Low piglet population weighs on whey prices (week ended Feb 21, 2016)
Whey market was quiet during the period in review, as most market participants halted operation due to the Chinese New Year celebration. Although some feed millers have resumed production last week, they were not eager to increase whey stoc ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
China Whey Weekly: Whey prices flat amid low piglet feed sales in (week ended Dec 20, 2015)
China whey demand remained sluggish as the quantity of piglet was low amid flat sow population. Although the hog market strengthened at a stable pace, feed millers were reluctant to increase whey purchases in anticipation of poor piglet sal ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Pancosma's new TakTik 'customised' for weaning piglets
With rising global population and consequent demand for animal products worldwide, the identification of novel strategies to increase the efficiency of food production has become a major research focus. With regards to agricultural animals, ...

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