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To ensure that each piglet intakes enough colostrum and to help the smallest piglets get it, split suckling should be used.
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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.
Use the probe of an intrauterine AI catheter to provide colostrum.
Nothing has more impact on piglet survival that an adequate intake of colostrum.
PRRSV does not favour infection by H. parasuis by reducing the population of alveolar macrophages, but by reducing their ability to inactivate the bacteria.
There are many home-made options that allow us to carry out this so important technique on our farms.
In a factory farm located in Mexico an increase in the mortality in the farrowing quarters was seen, and this coincides with temperature and relative humidity increases.
When there are not enough teats, the strongest piglet always occupies the place of the weak one, that is left without milk to suckle.
In pigs there is no other phase in which such a high percentage of losses occur such as in motherhood, in particular in the first days of life. At this stage the determining factor for survival is the rapid consumption of colostrum.
We have seen the importance of obtaining a sufficient dose of quality colostrum to generate the newborn’s defenses as well as the conflict that this can suppose when we level the litters after birth. Now lets take a look at the importance of rapidly obtaining colostrum and milk to ensure energy supply and minimize temperature loss.