Properly balanced rations should be fed in recommended amounts so that newborn pigs are well developed and strong. The sow must reach farrowing in the best nutritional and microbiological health for herself and the expected litter. Care during this time must also prepare the sow for a successful repeat performance at the earliest time within the system of weaning and rebreeding used.
Proper care of the sow during gestation, farrowing, and lactation is a means to reach a goal - a large litter of healthy pigs at birth that will remain healthy and grow rapidly. Blocker, Starkville, Mississippi Jerry Hawton, University of Minnesota John and Nancy Joyce, Anderson, Wyoming Ronny Moser, University of Minnesota Richard H. Jones, Purdue University Steven Pollmann, Decatur, Indiana England, Oregon State University Hobart W.
