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The nutritional expected benefit of these products is very high but every precaution must be taken, especially to prevent introduction of PED and spreading of ASF.

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.

Having a piglet feeder and a lamp in each farrowing pen avoids the annoying moving of these items between rooms and sometimes between buildings.

The performance decrease suffered by the piglets when weaned is one of the most worrying factors at the pig farms.

The piglets that suckle in the rear area of the udder start to eat feed before, and this would explain their better adaptation to the weaning.

In a factory farm located in Mexico an increase in the mortality in the farrowing quarters was seen, and this coincides with temperature and relative humidity increases.

One could think that the number of deaths increases in the winter in the northern hemisphere because the animals freeze to death.

The taste system senses the nutritional value of foods through the taste buds defined as clusters of taste sensory cells present in the tongue

It is practically impossible to inspect all the pigs individually during routine control visits.

Without adding more space, the only way to accommodate an increase in weaning age is to decrease the breeding herd inventory.

In order to follow the evolution of the pigs at weaning and fattening, having a growth curve is very practical.

Working with compound feeds allow to cover completely the animals' needs, taking full advantage of their use.

The new test in the welfare section is dedicated to conditions during post-weaning.

Without a doubt weaning is the most stressful process suffered by a pig, or at least it is up until that moment in its life.

The use of pulped food incites consumption and allows a smoother transition from milk to feed.

A large body of research data exists on the response of pigs to whey. Good quality whey protein contains all the protective components of milk protein.