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Background It is widely accepted that feed intake closely follows and is stimulated by water intake. Simply put, “you won’t eat if you’re thirsty”. So, improving water intake is especially important in pigs during the weaning transition phase to reduce the post-weaning performance slump. Especially in summer, we need to ensure that newly-weaned pigs get that first drink as soon as they arrive at the post-weaning site. With our Tonisity PxW waterline product, we can guarantee

• Tonisity Px reduces the pre-weaning mortality and ensures an extra pig per year per sow • Tonisity Px improves the health of the piglets and increases the pre-weaning growth of piglets. • Higher weaning weight results in higher growth and better feed efficiency in post-weaning and slaughter. The weaning weight and the number of weaned pigs per sow are the most important economic factors in the farrowing pen and the prerequisite for a high number of weaned pigs is a high num

Tonisity recently carried out a study on a 4,000-sow commercial farm in Chile. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect on piglet pre-weaning mortality (PWM) of Tonisity Px (TPX), a combination of electrolytes and key gut enhancing bioactives, in the farrowing house. Historically, the farm produces 2.3 litters per sow per year, with an average 15 piglets born alive per litter, which translates to 138,000 piglets per year with PWM usually occurring at a rate o

European legislation dictates that pig tail docking is unauthorised to be routinely performed on farms. However, tail docking is still common practice in many European countries, although several, including Finland and Lithuania have stopped routine tail docking altogether. However, many piglets in Europe are still routinely exposed to the cutting or cauterising of a part of the tail up to a week after birth, to prevent tail biting in their later life. This procedure is mostl