As the United States swine industry shifts toward improving gut health in newly weaned pigs to decrease mortality rates, a Kansas State University student is studying ways to incorporate low acid ...

Around the same time as the world was pondering Y2K, the swine industry was pondering a new production system for feeder pigs. Traditionally, producers transferred newly weaned pigs to specialized ...

Weaning and other regrouping events as routine work in commercial farms cause stress to pigs and compromise their welfare. Several studies found positive outcomes to mitigate weaning stress when ...

Yulong Yin is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a researcher at the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture and the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, both of the Chinese ...

The two companies have signed a joint development and commercialization agreement to launch feed additive Ablacto+. The game changing biosolution uses binding proteins to stabilize the gut of piglets, ...

The post-weaning environment in commercial pig nursery buildings is typically devoid of both the sow and her semiochemicals. Among other factors, the loss of maternal odors may contribute to ...

There’s no question that newborn piglets are more susceptible to iron deficiency due to inadequate iron stores at birth and rapid growth rate before weaning. But little research exists on just how ...