In the previous issue we covered the aspects of housing and nutrition of young breeding animals. This issue focuses on the newborn piglet, since the development of the animals in this phase (from birth until weaning) is a fundamentally important part of pork production. The number...

The economic environment has fundamentally changed the perspectives of swine farmers and the profitability of production in the past few years. ASP, COVID-19, sky-rocketing energy prices and increased feed costs have all contributed to the deepening of the crisis. The ban of ZnO, an additive...

In this article we summarise the results of our feeding trials conducted with our AMINO broiler diets. With these trials our objective was to determine how our AMINO broiler diets of reduced crude protein content and our recently developed AMINO prestarter diet affect the performance...