What we have learned and future thoughts on feeding pigs during times of stress and disease
Dr. Nick Gabler, Professor and Associate Chair, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Common stresses (eg. weaning, heat stress, oxidative stress, inflammation, pathogens) impair performance. Understanding their impact on digestibility, metabolism, protein accretion and feed efficiency provides insight into strategies to improve poor-health pig production. This talk will discuss known, new and future insights into how nutrition can be used to mitigate weaning and disease stress in wean to finish pigs.