Farmer's Weekly

Feeding pigs: Part 1

Pigs need to be fed differently at each stage of life, as their nutriment requirements change. Thus, boars and gestating sows, sows with piglets, young pigs three to 10 weeks old, and pigs being grown for slaughter at 60kg to 90kg live weight should all be fed different mixtures.

Feed mixtures for each pig class should contain the right quantities of digestible energy (DE), proteins, minerals and

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