Should you make the switch to five-week weaning?

摘要

Weaning piglets at five weeks old instead of four has potential benefits for improving weaning weights, health andgrowth after weaning, along with better feed efficiency and reducing days to slaughter.AHDB knowledge exchange manager Andrew Palmer says lively online exchanges about the system have been driven largely by the forthcoming ban on medicinal levels of zinc oxide in piglet feed, along with efforts to minimise antibiotics use.