Basic infrastructure for small-scale pig farming

Particularly in the early nursey phase when they’re starting on feed and early in the grow/finish phase; however, pigs of any age are susceptible.

Controlling and reducing dispersion of live weight during the pig production cycle is one of the biggest challenges farmers and technicians face today.

Although dispersion in the farrowing quarters is decisive in the final dispersion, we can take steps to correct some of this dispersion in the nursery.

Products obtained from insects have a high proportion of crude protein: 40-44% in the case of the black soldier fly larvae, or up to 60% in the case of black

Once clinical disease of pleuropneumonia has been confirmed through laboratory examination, prevention measures must be applied.

Researchers have reported that using corn co-products from wet milling can be beneficial to pig diets.

With a novel processing method, feed ingredients like rapeseed cake as well as sunflower meal can be used in piglet feed, as it is better digested

Liquid methionine added to diets for lactating sows leads to both more fat and lactose concentration in the milk as well as a better gut absorption of nutrients

Using enzymes is one of the efficient approaches against the toxic effects of mycotoxins, which transforms the mycotoxin into a non-toxic molecule

High standards of biosecurity and hygiene are amongst the most important measures needed to achieve pig production that is free from antibiotics use

With spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP), how is pig performance affected when compared to diets containing egg yolk antibodies? Spanish researchers did a trial.

Sows have become more productive, resulting in more but vulnerable piglets. Simultaneously, sows endure large body weight losses during lactation.

Chances are that most of the meat you consume comes from livestock reared on protein sources such as soya. But there is an urgent need to increase supply

The feed pelleting process consumes a lot of energy. One way to reduce the energy needed is to use enzymes. They are known to speed up reactions

The addition of probiotic yeast appears to positively affect the piglet immune status, whether supplied in sow feed or in weaner piglet feed.

Phytogenic substances represent one of the most interesting classes of feed additives. They bear the potential to effectively repress the pathogenicity

Adding organic iron in piglets drinking water during lactation may be an alternative to parenteral administration of inorganic iron.

Getting piglets to eat before weaning helps them to ease the weaning dip. Not even 50% of them, however, actually do eat prior to weaning. How best to stimulate

A combination of the enzymes xylanase and beta-glucanase gives nutritionists more freedom to use high levels of grains in pig and poultry diets.