Swine Nutrition

Swine Nutrition

The WAGS team is here for you throughout the entire life cycle of the pigs in your barn, helping you get the best performance at each stage of production. We’re experienced with pork production from birth to market.

We know how important biosecurity is, so we work with you in the barn and on your operation. We look at all aspects of your production to give you the best possible recommendations for performance, profitability, and ongoing improvement. That includes visiting with you regularly and looking at your production data.

Our approach: best cost per pig, not least cost per tonne of feed. We use our powerful Feed Cost Model to estimate feed costs and margins per pig in your barn. We know that finishing is where you’ll spend about 70% of your feed costs on each pig - but we don’t forget about the sow and nursery levels.

Sows

To develop the best feeding program for your sow herd, we look at key things like:
  • breeding and farrowing performance
  • sow body condition and structure
  • feed and water consumption
  • feed cost per piglet weaned and other weaning data


Nursery

Once piglets get to the nursery, they need to get on feed as soon as possible. This is an important growth stage, so we look at:
  • the right type and amounts of minerals and nutrients
  • feeder adjustment
  • feed quality
  • available space at the feeder


Grow-finish

This is where the bulk of the dollars are spent in hog production, and we’ve got a proven track record in helping producers get each pig out the door as efficiently and profitably as possible. At this stage, we focus on:
  • highest growth rate, feed intake and efficiency that work best with for your barn
  • rations that match the genetic line potential of your pigs
  • meeting grading grid requirements for the best return on marketed animals
In all phases of production and lifecycle, we assess the barn environment, air quality, and pig flow to make recommendations for production improvement.

We analyze every ingredient in your feed, so rations are targeted to the stage of life the pigs are at. Over-formulating means wasting money; under-formulating means losing performance so having the right nutrition is very important.

And we’re familiar with SwineBooks so we know how to look at all the data in your barn’s system and we can explain what it means and how you can use it to improve your production.

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