Page 6 of articles about lactation

The objective of supplementing piglets with creep feeds is to reduce the number of under-developed animals during the first days after weaning and, albeit with some differences, it is beneficial for both 21-day and 28-day lactations.

The results show that digestibility of the same diets is indeed higher for gestating and lactating sows than it is for growing pigs.

Making use of the NET energy system for sows to formulate feeds makes it possible to achieve a smooth transition from gestation to lactation diets, which makes the transition period around farrowing easier for the sows.

Piglets have little difficulty finding the feeder but piglets that were not exposed to creep feed during lactation do not recognize the feed as food when weaned.

This system does not provide an improvement in the production data, but a saving in energy costs and a better use of the resources in general.