articles about colostrum

To ensure that each piglet intakes enough colostrum and to help the smallest piglets get it, split suckling should be used.

How should you decide if your current routines on colostrum are working? How much intake is enough?

Is it best to separate gilts from sows? Which biosecurity measures are most important? In this article, four renowned veterinarians discuss their recommendations.

Put more piglets on than teats? When to start fostering? Am I cross fostering piglets too many times?

The fiber in the diet improves the colostrum yield of sows and it helps reducing farrowing length. But... how many grams of fiber are recommended to be supplied to the sows during last week prior to farrowing?

Administer long-acting oxytocin to sows that have started farrowing to milk them more easily.

There are casualties in the farrowing unit due to poor colostrum intake but, how many are there really? Are they just being classified as non-viable piglets?

This article discuss about the protection of the placenta, the colostrum, the immunity conferred by milk and the congenital acquired immunity of the piglet.