Encouraging piglets to eat more creep feed

Consuming creep feed can help piglets to successfully bridge the gap from milk to solid feed at weaning. Due to many factors, weaning often leads to a low feed (energy) intake, gastro-intestinal problems, gut microbiota dysbiosis, reduced growth and behavioural disturbances after weaning, thereby reducing health and welfare. Stimulating the consumption of solid feed prior to weaning, i.e. creep feeding, may improve piglet adaptation after weaning, but factors influencing creep feed intake in pi