Creep feed could benefit older weaned piglets by supplementing
\nnutrients in sows\u2019 milk. Additionally, it could aid the transition to
\nsolid feed at weaning, perhaps more of a benefit to the younger
\nweaned piglet. In our experiment, body weight at nursery exit was
\ngreater in piglets offered creep feed for one week prior to weaning,
\nregardless of weaning age (3 vs 4 wk weaning). However, less than
\n4 % of the piglets weaned at 3 weeks of age showed evidence of
\ncreep feed consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Creep feed could benefit older weaned piglets by supplementing nutrients in sows\u2019 milk. Additionally, it could aid the transition to solid feed at weaning, perhaps more of a benefit to the younger weaned piglet. In our experiment, body weight at nursery exit was greater in piglets offered creep feed for one week prior to weaning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[9265,25481,103,26846,25984,46,108,7258,14,126,104,77,27206],"class_list":["post-14676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production","tag-creep","tag-creep-feeding-in-the-farrowing-room-do-the-outcomes-depend-on-weaning-age","tag-farrowing","tag-farrowing-room","tag-farrowing-to-nursery-baby-pig-creep-feeder","tag-feed","tag-feeding","tag-milk","tag-pig","tag-piglet","tag-sow","tag-weaning","tag-weaning-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14679,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676\/revisions\/14679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}