Young animals: The motivation to eat is key to success

Who has not seen poor animal performance because of a too late ingestion of the first feed by a calf, piglet, or chick? In animal production, we know that a delay in feed ingestion for a young animal will lower its performance even long after this early physiological stage and will induce weaker and less productive animals. But how to convince a young animal to search and eat its first feed as early as possible? What are the parameters responsible for a delay in feed ingestion? The beginning