Dairy milk provides much more than just lactose

16-07-2014 | | |
Newborn piglets often need a good dairy supplement to make the transaction from sow milk to solid feed as smooth as possible.
Newborn piglets often need a good dairy supplement to make the transaction from sow milk to solid feed as smooth as possible.
Piglets need high quality milk in their first days of life. In highly prolific sows, providing additional milk sources are needed to make sure all piglets get what they need. What makes milk replacers from dairy sources the right choice for piglets? Due to larger litter sizes and increased competition for sow milk, nutrient availability for just-born pigs is often limited. Providing an additional soluble milk replacer to suckling piglets will increase nutrient intake of the piglets and, therefor


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