Feed flavours are commonly used in in swine nursery diets to improve diet palatability and stimulate intake. Recent creep feed studies, using colour markers in the feed, have shown that only a certain proportion of piglets actually consume creep feed. These “eaters” as a result have better initial post weaning feed intake and growth performance than those in the litter that do not consume creep
The lack of response to the feed flavour may be due to the limited time of creep feeding. In this study the researchers chose a period of three days to reflect the current practice of US pig producers to provide creep feed for two to seven days before weaning. They felt that for the addition of flavour to be warranted that any effect must be visible in a short duration. Read more ...
This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers
The lack of response to the feed flavour may be due to the limited time of creep feeding. In this study the researchers chose a period of three days to reflect the current practice of US pig producers to provide creep feed for two to seven days before weaning. They felt that for the addition of flavour to be warranted that any effect must be visible in a short duration. Read more ...
This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers
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