Gathering pace 🏃‍♂️

🆙 Research about sows and fiber continues to gather pace! That’s a thing not only because understanding fiber type is important, but also because the work conducted by AB Vista has shown that increasing soluble fiber by an extra 20-30 g/day in gestation can potentially improve the number of pigs weaned. 

     •  This continues to be an area of great opportunity for the US market – where soluble fiber sources are often limited. 

🔍 Take this small sow study, for example: it showed that with higher levels of total dietary fiber and soluble dietary fiber, sows exhibited lower heat stress. Read about it here.

🧮 It’s undeniable how crucial it is to understand the fiber that is being fed to the swine, so AB Vista offers a service to enable producers to determine fiber type in feedstuffs, the ABV Calculators. Click here to use them!