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YoghurLac® is a tasty, high-energy and acidified powder product for piglets, which gets thick as yoghurt when mixed with water. The acidification of YoghurLac® may reduce growth of undesirable bacteria, which makes YoghurLac® ideal as energy supplement for small and weak piglets with a challenged gastro-intestinal tract.
Newborn weak piglets:
Mix 100 g YoghurLac® into 1 litre of lukewarm clean water. Administer the YoghurLac® solution orally, for example using a dosing gun, in the back of the mouth with up to 10-15 ml per dose. Alternatively, by feeding in the piglet- nest with Pig-LET Starter system.
As a supplement to sow’s milk:
Mix 125 grams of YoghurLac® into 1 litre of water (15-25 °C) and administer in the feed trough for typical 5-8 days
For weaned piglets:
Mix 125 grams YoghurLac® into 2 litre water (15-25 °C) and administer in the feed trough or as an appetiser on top of the dry feed for 2-8 days after weaning.
At Danish Pig Advisory Center, Senior Advisor Karina Mikkelsen has excellent experiences with one concrete yoghurt product as energy boost for weak new-born piglets. See the recipe on how you keep the weakest piglets of the litter alive.
A Danish piglet producer in West Jutland with over 1,800 sows reduced piglet mortality from slightly over 13 percent units to just over 10 percent in 12 weeks by giving the smallest piglets a yoghurt product in Pig-LET Starters.