Management challenges faced in the farrowing house are many, but unlocking the potential of piglet performance is made easier with the Mini Transition Feeder.

Advances in modern genetics have produced larger litters, placing greater demands on the sow. Combined with later weaning and the recent removal of zinc from diets, the ability to wean stronger pigs that thrive post-weaning has become even more of a challenge.

While offering dry creep feed in the farrowing house helps to improve piglet performance, results are often inconsistent. The Mini Transition Feeder changes this. Installed between farrowing pens, it provides freshly mixed gruel from high-quality pre-starter diets starting a few days after birth and continuing until weaning. Feed offered in this way increases both early and overall feed intake, resulting in increased weight gain and improved conditioning of the gut pre-weaning.

Stockmen and women report that the piglets fed via the Mini Transition Feeder are of a vastly improved quality and consistency at weaning. Weaned pigs have no hesitation feeding, and results demonstrate increased weaning weights, reduced feed wastage and pigs that are significantly heavier at 3 weeks post-weaning than those fed from standard creep pans.