Successful nutrition of the nursery pig should begin with as heavy a pig as possible, feed as simple diets as possible, and focus on nursery feeding management. Pigs at a lighter weight at weaning are at a higher risk of death and disease. Weaning weight is important with all ages of pigs but is not as important as the weaning age of pigs. Younger pigs gain less than older pigs at the start of the nursery phase. The newly weaned piglet needs a lot of energy so thus needs low-cost, high energy, highly digestible diets. Two feeding options for soybean meal are: 1) Use a low amount and steadily increase it over time and 2) Use soybean meal as a partial replacement for more expensive specialty proteins. Adding fibre and/or restricting feed intake are not good for controlling diseases. Ingredient selection should be based on lowest cost, maximizing intake, and digestibility. The piglets digestive system is undeveloped right after weaning so ingredients must be used that can be digested and that help the digestive system grow and develop. After weaning, 25 to 50% of the feeding pan should be visible for the first few days. As the piglets discover this and begin to adjust to it, the level should be rapidly reduced to 25%. This does not reduce the average daily gain and feed efficiency/daily gain both improve because of decreased wastage and the continuous access to fresh feed.