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Thursday, November 16, 2017
what is creep feed?
What is creep feed? Creep feeding is the common practice of feeding a solid diet to piglets while they are suckling the sow, preparing their digestive system for weaning. Creep feeding initiates and promotes gut and digestive enzyme development, which enables the piglet to digest nutrients from food sources other than that of milk.
This encourages feed intake, which is one of the greatest challenges to post-weaning performance.For piglets to fully benefit from creep feeding, they must have sufficient time to consume about 500 grams of feed before weaning.
Creep feed is highly nutritious and palatable fit for piglets to enhance proper growth.Start creep feeding at seven to 10 days of age, and only give fresh feed.Begin by offering creep feed on a flat surface, like a shallow tray (heavy metal or plastic trays that can hook into the slats).Place trays close to the piglets but not under direct heat as this will turn the feed stale too quickly; also, keep feed away from the dunging area. what is creep feeding?
Creep feeding prepares piglets’ intestinal tracts for the change to solid food at weaning time, and they start developing enzymes needed to digest non-milk foods. Without exposure to creep feed before weaning, the dietary change at weaning is quite drastic and will result in reduced feed intake, diarrhea, weight loss and stress, predisposing piglets to illness.
The access to creep feed starting around 4 to 7 days of life ensures the piglets get used to eating solid food and they establish essential intestinal microbial populations well before weaning. This results in increased daily gain and greater post-weaning feed intake and feed-to-gain ratios.Supplementing sow milk with creep feed can result in both improved pre- and post-weaning. performance,
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