Implementing drinking water feed additive strategies in post-weaning piglets, antibiotic reduction and performance impacts: case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Piglets at weaning suffer many stressors such as sudden change of feed, change in group composition and the end of lactogenic immunity. These stressors may cause poor growth performance. There is a need for alternatives to support piglets during the weaning period. Organic acids are known to have a positive effect on performance through reducing the pH and their antimicrobial action.

Context & purpose

The purpose was to study the effect of the inclusion of a free and buffered organic acid blend in drinking water on performance of weaned pigs. Four-hundred and twenty pigs in a conventional herd were allocated after weaning to one of three treatments and monitored during 4 weeks: group (1) Full medication, group (2) organic acid blend + full medication, group (3) or

SUBMITTER: Mesonero Escuredo JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5382475 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature