Strategies to ensure calves benefit as much as possible from colostrum were offered by two speakers at the recent 2022 Healthy Calf Conference. “We saw it when we went through that movement of feeding more milk (to calves),” said Dr. Kelly Barratt, former Heartland Vet Services partner and current director of welfare for Saputo. Why […] Read more
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Boosting IgG levels in calves’ early meals
Speakers see potential benefits from changes in colostrum management
High oleic soybean oil works well in pig diets
Science Notes: Study also focused on carcass characteristics
Adding a fat source to the traditional corn-soy swine diet is common practice, but the type of fat can make a difference for growing pigs and carcass quality. Polyunsaturated fats, the primary type in distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), can reduce fat quality and complicate processing of pork bellies and bacon. High oleic soybeans, […] Read more
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