Quantity vs. Quality 🧐

🐷 Nowadays, with improved genetics, hyper-prolific sows are having more piglets born per litter by the day! However, quantity is not all there is to it… As litter size increases, piglets are born with lower average birth weights – which means higher rates of pre-weaning mortality and more days to get to market. 

     • According to AB Vista’s Dr. Pete Wilcock, there’s a way to get a leg up on the quality side as well: live yeasts. 

⬆️ They have the potential to reduce lightweight pigs at birth and increase the number of piglets weaned through a multi-mechanistic action. Studies have shown that the use of a live yeast in gestation and lactation sow diets can be used to help mitigate the higher percentage of lower piglet birth weights and to improve the number of pigs weaned. Read this to better understand the subject.