Best of Leman #7: M. Ellis – Managing Piglet Preweaning Mortality

This is our most popular series on the blog. Once a month, we are sharing with you a presentation given at the Allen D. Leman swine conference, on topics that the swine group found interesting, innovative or that lead to great discussions.

We can find all of the presentations selected from previous conferences on the blog here.

Today, we look back at one of the keynote presentations of the 2019 Allen D. Leman conference. Dr. Mike Ellis from the University of Illinois explains why we should not dismiss pre-weaning mortality and what strategies can be used to mitigate it.

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What is the impact of zinc in late-gestation diets?

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Our colleagues in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural resource Sciences (CFANS) have shared one of their latest projects with the National Hog Farmer readers. They found that adding higher amounts of zinc in the late-gestation diet of sows in both a research and commercial herd increased the survival of smaller piglets until they are weaned.

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