Creep feed: Getting more piglets interested

Getting piglets to eat before weaning helps them to ease the weaning dip. Not even 50% of them, however, actually do eat prior to weaning. How best to stimulate piglets consume creep feed sooner? Canada’s Prairie Swine Centre tested some methods. Weaning results in numerous concurrent stressors for piglets: removal from the sow, mixing with unfamiliar conspecifics, movement to an unfamiliar environment, and the abrupt change from a liquid (milk) to a solid diet. Creep feed is an optional prov