Unlike energy and nutrients, there are no firm recommendations of fiber inclusion in nursery diets. Here’s a look at the role fiber can play in ameliorating post-weaning diarrhea.
Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. But it hasn’t always been this way.
Sensitivity to post-weaning diarrhea is affected by physiological and metabolic changes of the gastrointestinal system that occur at weaning, leaving the newly weaned pig more vulnerable. Here’s how nutrition can help.
A Kansas State University postdoctoral student is conducting research to update the swine industry’s production standards, a project he said will aid producers in formulating pig diet formulation and safety.
While many “believe” mat feeding and gruel feeding help the young pig thrive, surprisingly little comparison data is available to make best practice decisions. Here’s a look at K-State research on these practices.
Kansas State University officials say a new swine facility that opened in late May will give students experience with facilities that closely represent what they will see in their future workplace.
