New strategies in piglet nutrition: Gel feeding

In recent years it has been recognised that early feed intake after weaning is essential for the performance of pigs during the whole fattening period. Accounting for the scientific progress, beside milk replacers or dry prestarter and starter diets, another type of piglet feed is now entering the market: Gel.     In modern pig production facilities piglets are born in a more or less sterile environment. After birth, sow milk provides the piglets with all required nutrients and water.