Successful lactation is essential to ensure a good start for piglets, with robust health and optimal growth. For sows, this phase represents a major physiological challenge, requiring precise management and perfectly controlled feeding.
High-performing sows during lactation are essential to farm profitability. Insufficient lactation is the second leading reason for culling, just after health issues such as lameness or disease.
Ensuring good lactation not only helps produce piglets in good condition at weaning—supporting better performance during finishing—but also preserves the sows’ body condition. The lactation phase places heavy demands on the sow’s body reserves and requires substantial mobilization. It is all the more demanding because the sow must quickly prepare to begin a new gestation cycle and therefore maintain good body condition.
To meet this dual challenge—ensuring high-performing lactation while keeping sows in good condition—a precise, perfectly tailored feeding program is essential.
Beyond a well-formulated ration, sows need complementary nutritional solutions to meet the intense demands of the lactation phase. These specific supplements help them get through this period without compromising their body condition or performance.
To support sow performance during periods of oxidative stress and inflammation, FeedStim Sow provides a targeted supply of vitamins and plant-based ingredients rich in flavonoids, including Scutellaria baicalensis, recognized for strengthening sows’ resilience and productivity in inflammatory conditions.
By supporting proper metabolic function, the sow can allocate more resources to milk production, improving litter growth and helping to limit body condition loss.
FeedStim Sow is recommended at the end of gestation and throughout lactation.
The liver plays a central role in the metabolism of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. It is therefore crucial to support it, especially during periods when the body is under heavy demand. The Brio Liver plant blend supports liver metabolism and helps strengthen proper liver function during these sensitive periods.
Brio Liver is recommended at the end of lactation and at the beginning of gestation to support the sow’s metabolic status and assist in rebuilding reserves for the next production cycle.
Heat stress has particularly harmful effects on lactation: it reduces feed intake and increases oxidative stress. In farrowing rooms, temperatures are generally above the sows’ comfort zone, naturally placing them in excessive heat stress during the lactation phase.
ThermoControl supplementation helps sows better cope with these conditions. Their appetite is stimulated, the effects of oxidative stress are limited, and they can maintain high-quality lactation while helping to reduce fluctuations in body condition.
ThermoControl is recommended from mid-gestation and throughout lactation.
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