The impact of protein content in the diet on growth and diarrhoea in weaning piglets
Lowering the dietary protein level in post-weaning diets may reduce the impact on diarrhoea at weaning.
Page 2 of articles about weaning
What is the best age for weaning piglets?
Enric Marco examines the reasons why the average age at weaning has not yet reached 28 days in Spain.
Supplementing early weaned piglets with an essential oil blend: the effect on growth performance, intestinal health, and microbiota
A combination of carvacrol, thymol, and cinnamaldehyde in weanling diets may improve growth performance, intestinal health, and gut microbiota in piglets.
Effect of floor feeding creep feed on the growth, morbidity, and mortality of pigs after weaning
Floor feeding large pellet creep feed starting 4 days preweaning improved nursery pig growth performance and fallout rates.
Short- and long-term effects of birth weight and neonatal care in pigs
Neonatal care treatment may be useful to reduce mortality in low birth weight piglets and could affect carcass fatness and meat quality.
Weaning: The first hours after arrival
Javier Lorente tells us how to make newly weaned piglets comfortable and, above all, how to get them to start drinking and eating as soon as possible.
The effect of dietary tryptophan levels on growth performance and intestinal microbial ecology in weaned piglets
Tryptophan as a strategy to improve growth performance, intestinal mucosal barrier integrity, and intestinal microbial ecology in weaned piglets.
Weaning: The importance of the process
Javier Lorente outlines step by step the keys to reducing piglet stress during the weaning process.
Tip: Stop back strain with a weaning ramp
This innovative ramp designed by Hylife improves piglet welfare and reduces physical strain on farm workers during the weaning process.
Transition weaner diet
The similarity between the pre- and post-weaning diet composition may be more important for post-weaning performance than the absolute intake level of solid feed pre-weaning.
HyLife weaning ramp wins Aherne Prize at 2023 Banff Pork Seminar
Robert Lafrenière and Barak Doell developed the “HyLife weaning ramp”, an innovation that improves working conditions, animal well-being and productivity.
Report: We visited a sustainable farm in Italy
We went to visit Piggly, a sustainable farm from an environmental, production, animal welfare, and economic perspective.
Microbiota and swine production - The microbiota at weaning. Part 4
A simple management strategy can have an impact on the piglet’s most challenging time in life: the weaning period.
Weaning well starts "before weaning"
Everything you need to know to successfully wean your piglets.
Pre-weaning adaptation responses in piglets fed milk replacer with gradually increasing amounts of wheat
Milk replacer enriched with wheat may promote early gut maturation.
Easy trick to attract weaned piglets to the dish
A simple, easy-to-build toy that will attract piglets to the feed dish to reduce post-weaning fasting.