Do not over-explore the anti-diarrhea effect of piglets

Piglet health is the key to production, and piglet intestinal health is the core of growth and development and the basis for rapid growth. Factors such as nutrition, physiology, environment and pathogenic microorganisms can cause disorders in the intestinal structure and function of piglets, leading to indigestion, diarrhea, growth inhibition, and even death.

According to statistics, about 24 million piglets die from diarrhea each year, causing direct economic losses of about 12 billion yuan. In the current production practice, it is urgent to take effective measures to improve the intestinal development of piglets, maintain and give full play to the function of the intestines, and thus improve the performance and health of piglets. However, current farmers have misunderstandings about feed nutrition, such as light content, light quantity and light weight, and low price. Especially in the piglet stage, the demand for nutrition of piglets is more misunderstood, and the anti-diarrhea effect of piglet feed is excessively pursued. It is believed that the more piglets eat, the better (especially under the pressure of disease infection), and the excessive pursuit of piglet skin color is good. Bad.

In fact, 10% piglet diarrhea in scale farms is normal, and some are often nutritional diarrhea. Just like people, some people drink milk and diarrhea, not caused by disease. Excessive pursuit of anti-diarrhea after the endless, high-dose use of drugs, high-zinc, high-copper and other feeds, not only pollute the environment, but also the appearance of the piglets can be observed in the subsequent or full-length growth performance damage, the deeper is the pig disease resistance. The overall production performance of the herd decreased, the feed cost increased; the drug in the feed caused the disease judgment and the timing of the drug to be misaligned; the drug resistance caused the pulse drug to be ineffective after the onset; the time-effect of disease control was poor, the course of disease was long, and it was difficult to restore physical strength.

Therefore, we must recognize the nutrition and health of piglets and improve the nutritional level of piglets is the basic measure to ensure the health of piglets. The core value of piglet feed is to have good nutrition control methods, high daily gain, low feed to meat ratio, and contribution to subsequent growth performance and health. However, the domestic understanding of feed is often not ideal, and the market dominated by marketing is easy to mislead pig farmers' awareness of feed nutrition. Too much attention to the appearance of the feed, but ignore the essential value of the feed.

In the pig production process, a healthy intestinal tract is the basis for ensuring the current and subsequent growth performance. The intestinal health of the piglet means that the intestinal immune function is mature and the disease resistance is strong. The intestine is the largest immune organ in the collective, and nutrient regulation can achieve intestinal health and have a positive impact on the growth process. Therefore, the healthy nutrition strategy of piglets is based on nutrition regulation of intestinal health: one must maintain the balance of intestinal flora, and the other should supply nutrients needed for healthy development of the intestine. Out of the misunderstanding of piglet feed, through the appearance of the essence, we can promote the healthy development of the pig industry.