The success of pig breeding directly depends on how the piglets ate in the first month of life. A healthy sow can feed the litter herself, but only on condition that there are not too many piglets and she is doing well with lactation. If there is little or no breast milk, you will have to urgently look for a replacement. The farmer needs to know how to feed monthly piglets, both without the participation of the sow, and with her presence.

Features of feeding in the first month

The stomach of a newborn pig can only digest milk. How to feed small piglets in the first 30 days of life in the absence of milk from the mother? Piglets are given cow's or goat's milk, it can be whole or skimmed, but always warm. You can use powdered milk for piglets both as a main one and as an additive. It must be a product specially made in accordance with GOST, marked on the packaging: "feed for piglets."

How to breed powdered milk for piglets? The specific method is indicated on the package, but there are standard dilution rates. For piglets that are breastfed and receive milk as a supplement, it is diluted in a reduced concentration, and for artificial people a more concentrated meal is prepared. Milk should only be diluted with boiled water at a temperature of 45 degrees, then the mixture is cooled to 38 - 40 degrees.

Attention! Do not give milk prepared without observing the proportions indicated in the instructions. The prepared mixture should not be cold or hot. Leaving the mixture for the next feeding is prohibited.

How to feed monthly piglets

Even if the uterus was feeding the piglets, by the end of the first month there is not enough breast milk. Among the piglets, there is a division into leaders who take their milk, and weaker cubs, which they eat. If complementary foods are started in time, the war for leadership ends.

Whole milk replacer (CMR) for piglets is used for painless weaning of piglets from the uterus. And in the absence of natural feeding with this product, suckers are bottle-fed for up to three weeks. When purchasing ZCC, you should pay attention to the expiration date so as not to buy an expired mixture. At the same time, you can add a little green grass. Newborn piglets feed 8 times a day.

Piglets nutrition in the first month

How to feed monthly chicks

Feeding is carried out 6 - 7 times a day, milk porridge, sour milk, boiled potatoes, grated carrots (no more than 15 g per day) are gradually added to the diet. The diet should include vitamins and minerals, but fiber should not yet be contained, they cannot assimilate it. Porridge at the beginning of complementary foods can be prepared according to this homemade recipe:

  • 46% barley grits;
  • 30% crushed oats;
  • 9% sunflower meal;
  • 6% fishmeal;
  • 5% peas;
  • 3% feed yeast
  • 0.8% chalk;
  • 0.2% salt.

This complementary food is given from twenty days of age. Even before the onset of one month of age, the pigs are fed pre-starter compound feed. It is a complete product and does not require any additives.

For piglets under one month of age, industrial bio feed is produced. Such feeds are independently prepared from greens, fruits, vegetables with the addition of premixes.

Industrial bio feed is produced for piglets under one month of age

Supplements must be included in the menu of pigs in the first month of life. On private farms, they are prepared from milk, meat, fish. To saturate the food with minerals, salt, chalk, eggshells, red clay, and charcoal are included in small quantities. Little pigs must definitely drink water, until two weeks of age it must be boiled. A cub of one week old drinks up to 0.5 liters of water per day, if water is not given, intestinal upset may begin. The water trough must always be clean, the water is changed three times a day.

Attention! Monthly piglets should not overeat. From the feeders, it is immediately necessary to remove what the animals have not eaten, and rinse the container and process it with boiling water.

If a piglet eats properly, it will grow and its weight will increase 5 times in the first month!

How to feed a month old pig

How to feed piglets

At this age, the piglets are weaned from the uterus. If the purpose of the offspring is meat, castration of males is carried out. Piglets are weaned from the uterus gradually, reducing the number of feedings. Then the sow is removed from the room, and the babies are kept for some time in a familiar environment.

At this age, piglets are purchased for fattening. They can already eat themselves and have gained weight. Young animals for fattening are selected according to the following criteria:

  • nimble, not suffering from shortness of breath when running;
  • elongated body shape, wide back, straight legs;
  • the pig should be weaned from the uterus and have an excellent appetite.

You do not need to take a pot-bellied piglet for fattening, with coarse bristles, flabby skin, saggy tail, and X-shaped legs. The weight of pigs at 2 months should be equal to 20-25 kg.

How to feed a small pig of meat breed? He needs food containing protein (legumes, grains). An approximate daily menu of a one and a half month old pig looks like this:

  • vegetables (pumpkin, beets, carrots) chopped 250 g;
  • crushed grain 150 g;
  • skim milk 600 g;
  • boiled potatoes 400 g;
  • herbal flour 100 g;
  • rub 500 g;
  • chalk 15 g;
  • salt 10 g

Legumes and grains are good feed for a piglet

You can keep piglets on compound feed, it will cost more, but require less labor.

To adjust the metabolism for rapid weight gain, aminosubtilin GZH is added to the food of monthly piglets. Sodium gluconate will help improve the appetite of guinea pigs.

Feeding piglets over 2 months old

How to feed Vietnamese piglets

You can understand how successful the feeding of pigs is from 1 to 6 months by weight gain. Pigs aged 2 to 4 months should add 400-700 grams per day. How to feed piglets at the age of 2 months? During this period, there is a rapid gain in mass, so food should be rich in proteins, it is pea, barley, oatmeal, vegetable peelings, dairy products. Young people are fed with potatoes (by no means raw), beet and carrot tops, pumpkin, zucchini. It is necessary to remember about minerals, every day young pigs should consume up to 20 g of chalk and salt. It is necessary to find out not only what to feed two-month-old piglets, but also what rules to follow.

When fattening for meat, 50% of the diet is food waste, bone and fish meal, and silage. It is recommended to dilute concentrated feeds with hot water and stand for four hours. To improve the feed, you can dilute it with oat milk. It is prepared simply: 1 kg of oatmeal is poured with boiling water and insisted for 3 hours.

Feeding piglets over 2 months old

Supplements, premixes for feeding pigs. Vaccinations.

Useful active substances that are not contained in the usual pig diet should be supplied in the form of dietary supplements - premixes. Supplements have been developed for every age of pigs. The introduction of such additives can significantly reduce the consumption of feed.

  • Bioadditive "Borka" for piglets increases immunity, increases weight gain. It contains vitamins, macro and microelements, this premix does not contain antibiotics, growth stimulants and hormones.
  • "Good peasant" not only increases weight gain, but also removes worms, heals pigs. Gilts fed with this additive improve the taste of meat.
  • "Dar Velesa" is a supplement specially created for piglets. Promotes better feed absorption.
  • "Borka Champion" - designed for accelerated feeding. Weight gain is increased by 20% and feeding time is reduced by a month. It also serves as a means of preventing rickets, anemia.

Premixes are given to animals only as additives according to the instructions, they cannot be substituted for feed.

Pig breeding is impossible without preventive vaccinations. The piglet receives the first injection on the third day of life, this is an iron preparation to prevent anemia. At ten days of age, a pig is vaccinated against rickets, at the twentieth day, they are vaccinated against salmonella, and an anti-plague vaccine is administered at the same time. A month later, this vaccination is repeated. The introduction of the vaccine against erysipelas is recommended at 2 months, and piglets are vaccinated against swine foot and mouth disease at 2.5 months.

What should not be given to piglets

There are products that are strictly forbidden to give to small pigs. Frozen and spoiled food can cause poisoning and death from E. coli infection. There are herbs that are poison for piglets: spurge, buttercup. Green potatoes, potato sprouts and tops, as well as a decoction of potatoes, are dangerous for babies. It is forbidden to consume overcooked beets.

Breeding piglets is a difficult and hectic business, but it will definitely pay off if you follow all the rules and regulations.