When we meet with feed formulators and pig farmers, one of their concerns is if the benefits that we advocate in our meetings and seminars will be truly translated into real benefits in their farms, which show very diverse circumstances regarding animal health and biosafety.

It is said that “by far, the best proof is experience”. We are happy to share the experience of one farm that has been an early adopter of ChampionPig©, our program based on phyto-active ingredients.

This is a family-owned farm, with 500 sows. After using ChampionPig© for a period of time, they have observed the following improvements:

1) BENEFITS ON THE WHOLE FARM

• Time to reach market weight has been reduced by 2 weeks on average.
• Only in terms of less feed consumed, this reduction means savings of 17.36 USD per pig.

 2) BENEFITS ON SOWS

• The average live weight at birth has risen from 1.35 to 1.45 kg/piglet.
• The number of piglets born healthy has improved by 15%.
• The digestive function of pregnant sows has improved and there are fewer cases of constipation. Better digestive health is directly related to more colostrum and milk production.

3) BENEFITS ON PIGLETS

• Mortality from birth to end of the nursery is reduced by 37%.
• Weight at weaning (28 days) has risen from 7.5 to 8.1 kg on average.
• There is less need of antibiotics during suckling and weaning periods.

The ChampionPig© program

ChampionPig© is a full program for sows and piglets, based on the use of phytoactive ingredients, with measurable impact on the performance of the whole farm, reducing mortality and allowing to improve weight at slaughter or to slaughter earlier.

Each stage has a special product with a formulation designed to meet the needs of the animal:

• Through sow nutrition, we help to obtain more and healthier piglets.

• Acting on piglet nutrition boosts growth immediately, but also activates and prepares the metabolism of the animal for future productivity. In this way, during fattening, when the phyto-active ingredients are no longer given, the animals keep growing faster and being healthier. Another advantage about acting on piglet nutrition is that feed intake is low at this age and, as a result, it is cheaper than working on fattening pigs.