As the national agricultural sector navigates the evolving challenge of H5N1 avian influenza, industry leaders and government bodies are intensifying efforts to shield commercial poultry flocks. With the virus detected…
The pig with a textbook nutritional deficiency — the one with the classic, unambiguous clinical presentation described in veterinary pathology manuals — is not the pig that costs most commercial…
Maize and soybean meal are the global standard for pig ration formulation for good reason — their nutrient composition is well-characterized, well-balanced, and highly digestible, and the global feed industry’s…
Most commercial pig operations feed gilts and barrows the same ration in the same pens at the same time. This is the path of least resistance — one ration to…
Mycotoxin contamination is the problem that most West African commercial pig operations are carrying without knowing it. Not because the damage is absent — it is measurable, substantial, and recurring…
A finisher pig’s daily gain is not limited by how much feed it eats. In most commercial production contexts, pigs in the 60–110 kg weight range are fed ad libitum…
Of all the nutrients a pig consumes, water is the most abundant, the cheapest per unit, and — when restricted — the most rapidly consequential. A pig can tolerate days…
The single largest lever available to reduce pig production costs is not genetics, not housing, not labor — it is the feed formulation sitting in the feed bin. Feed accounts…
If a commercial pig farm tracked only one performance number, feed conversion ratio (FCR) would be the correct choice. It is the single metric that most directly translates the farm’s…
A newborn piglet weighs approximately 1.3–1.5 kg and survives entirely on the sow’s milk. At market weight, the same animal weighs 100–110 kg and has been eating solid feed for…
