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Improving healthy post-weaning performance

02-11-2016 | |
Essential oils can help overcome any post-weaning challenges.</p> <p><em>Photo: Ronald Hissink</em>
Essential oils can help overcome any post-weaning challenges.

Photo: Ronald Hissink

Despite improvements in litter size and pre-weaning growth rates, the performance of piglets post-weaning has not increased in recent years, nor has it kept pace with genetic improvements. This article looks at how proven nutritional solutions can resolve productivity and health challenges facing producers during post weaning. Weaning is arguably the most stressful period in the pig’s life. Gut health and hence gut health barrier function is often the result. This in turn causes leakage which


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