Fresh insights confirm role of vitamin D at farrowing

The importance of vitamin D for sows cannot be emphasised enough. Once more its effects were shown in recent trials in France and Germany. The results included fewer stillborn piglets and a higher piglet body weight. By Antoine Meuter, regional category manager, vitamins, DSM In earlier editions of Pig Progress, the function of vitamin D have been explained very thoroughly. The effects on producing sows were discussed in two articles, which appeared late 2012 and early 2013. For inst