A closer look at iron supplementation

While most pig breeders administer iron to their piglets during the first week of being born, the role of iron as a health and growth benefactor in pig rearing has escaped wider interest. This is strange, says Professor Jens Peter Nielsen, University of Copenhagen. There are many upsides to an increased focus on iron. Most indoor pig breeders administer iron to their piglets in some form – as a food additive or in parenteral form. Most pig breeders do it in the knowledge that iron has its