Lack of green feed in winter and spring, pigs should be fed more carrots

Feed carrots to pigs

Lack of green feed in winter and spring, piglets are prone to vitamin A deficiency, serious cases will die. Feeding more carrots to pigs can prevent this from happening.

One is to feed carrots to sows to increase the content of vitamin An in sow milk. The content of vitamin An in sow milk is closely related to the supply of carotene in feed. Often feeding carrots to sows can make sows secrete milk with high vitamin A content. Sow milk with high vitamin A content for piglets can not only prevent vitamin A deficiency, but also be very beneficial to their growth and development.

The second is to feed carrots to piglets. After the piglets can eat, they can boil and mash the carrots and add them to the yellow corn porridge to allow them to eat freely. If the piglets are suffering from vitamin A deficiency, mash the hard-boiled egg yolk, heat the boiled water or milk, and let them drink freely or manually for several days.