Matters needing attention in feeding piglets

Generally, sows with more litters will have insufficient nutrition. In order to solve this problem, farmers will choose to supplement feed. However, feeding young pigs is exquisite, and some places should be paid special attention to. The following small series brings you a few problems to pay attention to when making up materials, you can refer to the following.

1. Selection of feeding time

Feeding time is not the earlier the better, to start when its nutrition is not available, too small will lead to piglets can not be, too big missed to give piglets the time to lay the foundation. Farmers should pay attention to observation, generally starting about a week after the birth of piglets. At this time, piglets will often make noise, and some will compete for breast milk, which is basically caused by insufficient breast milk. Pig farmers should prepare something that can replace breast milk at this time.

2. Feed selection and feeding

At the beginning of feeding piglets, piglets generally do not eat, so at this time they need to be induced by farmers. When feeding for the first time, it is best to choose vegetables such as pumpkin to induce, which has a certain sweetness, which is closer to pig milk. For those that do not eat, it is best to bring them to the feed trough to assist in eating. 1-2 The day after piglets will gradually get used to eating in the feed trough, this time it is necessary to feed some soy products with higher protein content to meet their nutritional needs. Farmers must not feed the same thing all the time, which will lead to nutritional imbalance, and must not forget to artificially assist piglets to eat.

3. Tank management

From the beginning of feeding, the cleaning of the trough is a more important thing. Piglets are very fragile in the early stage, and the supplementary food is relatively thick. If the trough is not cleaned at this time, the piglets will eat some spoiled food, so because of a series of bad problems, this is easy for farmers to ignore. In order to facilitate piglet feeding, the trough should be relatively strong plastic, rubber and other substances as the best, plastic, not easy to hurt the piglet, the best inside and outside are relatively smooth, so that cleaning is not easy to leave residue.

4. Sanitary cleaning

Hygiene is also one of the situations to pay attention to when feeding. With the start of feeding, the hygiene of the pigsty cannot be maintained as easily as it was at the beginning. Poor sanitation can lead to frequent diarrhea in piglets, leading to a vicious circle. Piglets will run around when eating, and the food residue on them will inevitably be dispersed, so farmers are advised to clean up after each feeding in order to maximize the effect of feeding.

Piglets will gradually become more active in the early stage. At this time, farmers should pay more attention to feeding. Often, some piglets do not eat when feeding, resulting in economic damage to farmers in the later stage. For more information about piglets please visit our website.