Creep feeding helps nursery pigs thrive

Creep feed is traditionally offered to piglets in their first few weeks of life to allow them to get used to solid feed. It doesn’t have to stop there, however. Recent research indicates that with higher quality creep feed and subsequent weaner nutrition, pigs perform and feel better. The increase in litter size over the past few years has resulted in a greater number of low-birth-weight piglets and the reduced availability of sow milk per piglet. Greater variability, inferior performance and