Page 3 of articles about nursery

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.