Sow's milk as a source nutrients, biopeptides

摘要

Like every piglet feed manufacturer, I compete against nature's most perfect feed: sow's milk. It is no secret; suckling piglets will ignore even the best of the creep feeds if they can have access to as much sow's milk as they want. It is only the hyperprolificacy of modern sows and our inability to convince them to eat enough that limit the daily allowance of milk per piglet. But, still, we have to compete with a product that is so well designed that if we were to duplicate we would end up with a very, very expensive creep feed. Or, perhaps we got it all wrong and sow's milk is not that perfect. After all, it was designed having in mind wild boar piglets living in nature. Now, this is an on-going debate among piglet nutritionists worldwide.