Not all drying agents are made equal – keep newborn pigs warm, healthy, and thriving! 🐷
Apr 11, 2023
🦶 Step into their hooves! Without a way to properly regulate body temperature, newborn pigs – which are wet, stressed, and have limited energy reserves – need all the help they can get. Drying agents (or desiccants) are a critical tool for caregivers to achieve their mission of keeping newborn pigs dry and warm in those critical early hours of life, when energy reserves should be used for suckling colostrum – rich in nutrients and immune components that will get them off to a right start.
• Recent graduate work by Vande Pol (2020) and Olivo-Espinal (2021) has demonstrated the positive effect of drying agents on the magnitude and duration of rectal temperature decline in newborn pigs. Drying agents also contribute to good sanitation of the crate floor by reducing dampness. They may even reduce the pathogen load in the baby pig’s environment, positively impacting pre-wean mortality and more.
💡 However, not all drying agents are made equal. The line of drying agents from TechMix is optimized for different production conditions and priorities, providing the perfect options for getting the job done! After all, if you were in their hooves, you would want to use the best! Click here to learn more about them.
