ISSUE FOCUS 60 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE March 2025 “Despite advancements in management and nutrition, post-weaning diarrhoea remains a prevalent and costly issue in piglets, leading to mortality, reduced growth rates, and increased treatment expenses in pig production. To mitigate these negative impacts, strategies should prioritise rapid feed intake, good digestive feed capacity, healthy gastrointestinal development, and a robust immune system.” For successful weaning, strategies should focus on early feed intake, enhancing feed digestibility, and healthy gastrointestinal development. Adisseo’s nutritional approach has been developed to focus on these points, leading to improved animal resilience and revealing the full potential of pigs. The post-weaning period is a critical stage in swine production, because piglets are not physiologically or immunologically mature yet when they are weaned (usually between 3-4 weeks of age). Weaning also comes with several changes such as shift in diets or environmental challenges (Figure 1), making this period particularly challenging and prone to develop post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) or other diseases (Figure 1). If the piglets are not robust and strong enough to deal with these challenges, it can lead to problems throughout the fattening period, marked by reduced growth, less uniform batches, and associated significant economic losses. RETHINKING AND EXPLORING NEW STRATEGIES The old methods used to reduce the frequency of PWD have been regulated in the European Union for quite some years already through the ban on NEW CHALLENGES CALL FOR A FRESH WEANING STRATEGY FOR PIGLETS Maïwenn Bourdoulous Customer Solution Manager for Swine Adisseo Figure 1. Several factors lead to excessive stress at weaning
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