Steering gut health early boosts health and performance

Interventions early in life can help optimise weaning piglets’ health status, setting the stage for robust lifetime performance. Trouw Nutrition’s LifeStart programme focuses on positively influencing feed, farm and health management from conception through the weaning and nursery phases. The period around weaning is also known as the “immunity gap”, the piglets’ immune system is still immature and at the same time they are no longer protected by maternal antibodies from the sows milk