{"id":7319,"date":"2011-07-12T21:21:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2011-10-06T19:19:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:19:06","slug":"weaning-at-28-days-is-creep-feeding-beneficial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/weaning-at-28-days-is-creep-feeding-beneficial\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaning at 28 Days. Is Creep Feeding Beneficial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Providing feed to the piglets in the farrowing room, or creep feeding, is practised to ensure a smooth transition onto solid feed at weaning. It is assumed that even a limited intake of the creep feed will familiarize the piglet with solid feed and mitigate a post-weaning growth lag by 1) increasing the body weight of piglets at weaning, 2) encouraging consumption of solid feed immediately post-weaning and 3) initiating the adaptation of the gastro-intestinal tract to solid feed.\u00a0 It was found that by allowing piglets access to a Phase 1 diet in the farrowing room (creep feeding) for the final 7 days prior to weaning on day 28 did not provide a sustained growth benefit, regardless of weaning weight.<\/p>\n<p>For the full text <a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/weaning-28.pdf\">PDF Click Here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing feed to the piglets in the farrowing room, or creep feeding, is practised to ensure a smooth transition onto solid feed at weaning. It is assumed that even a limited intake of the creep feed will familiarize the piglet with solid feed and mitigate a post-weaning growth lag by 1) increasing the body weight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931,930],"tags":[10821,11119,4685,5361,13816,5117,3965,9265,7840,7785,577,5886,103,26846,6904,46,108,316,20007,158,15552,14,126,89,16262,7786,16251,35,23186,20911,1579,7784,77,10890,10847,9615,3857,1301,11771],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-production","tag-28-day","tag-28-days","tag-access","tag-adaptation","tag-ass","tag-body-weight","tag-content","tag-creep","tag-creep-feed","tag-creep-feeding","tag-diet","tag-farrow","tag-farrowing","tag-farrowing-room","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-feeding","tag-gas","tag-gh","tag-growth","tag-pdf","tag-pig","tag-piglet","tag-piglets","tag-pl","tag-post-weaning","tag-prairieswine-com","tag-swine","tag-swine-com","tag-t","tag-test","tag-weaners","tag-weaning","tag-weaning-at-28","tag-weaning-at-28-days","tag-weaning-at-28-days-is-creep-feeding-beneficial","tag-weaning-weight","tag-weight","tag-www-prairieswine-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","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=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7324,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}