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    Managing Birthweight In Today’s Highly Prolific Sows

    • 2023
    Pieter Langendijk, senior research scientist with Trouw Nutrition, speaks to LifeStart Swine about how producers can manage low piglet birth weights in today’s large litters. Langendijk has worked for Trouw Nutrition for seven years focusing on sow R&D, specifically looking at how nutrition can improve sow performance.
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    Supplemental Feeding On Highly Prolific Sow Farms

    • 2022
    Learn about the benefits of supplemental feeding on highly prolific sow farms, including improved piglet growth rates and reduced pre-weaning mortality rates.
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    Creep Feeding Influence Plasma Metabolomic Profile In Piglets

    • 2021
    There are quite significant variations observed in the birth weight within the same litter, primarily due to increased sow prolificacy, leading to larger litter size. As hyperprolific sows farrow larger litters, pig producers are challenged by a frustrating trend toward more low birthweight piglets, characterized as poorly developed gut and hence reduced nutrient intake and reduced overall performance. It has recently been reported that birth weight plays an essential role in intestinal development of the neonatal pigs.
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    Essential Role Of The Sow For Piglets

    Dr. Farmer spoke to attendees about colostrum’s role for the newborn piglet and factors that impact colostrum yield.
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