Recently I have heard both Paul Toplis and Phil Baynes talk and the message from them was the same, feed back herd information to them! At the George Vet Pig Fair Paul Toplis explained how changes in health status of your growing pigs mean they require different nutritional needs such as digestible lysine.
If you don’t tell your nutritionist that the health status has changed you are effectively feeding the wrong diet, and at the moment that is an expensive mistake. Phil Baynes also relayed the message about information on P2 and weight to calculate sow feeding curves, but who measures this anymore on a regular basis..?
Keep communication with your nutritionist or feed sales contact regular and keep the vet involved to relay any health changes, it can mean a big difference to performance.
Helen Thoday, BPEX KT manager