Baby Pig Restart® APF

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Baby Pig Restart® APF is a top-dress powder to encourage feed intake in young pigs at weaning.The transition to dry feed for a weaned pig is a challenging event. Reduction in nutrient intake sets the young pig back in development. Baby Pig Restart® APF is an attractant that entices pigs to eat dry feed more quickly. In addition to getting the young pig back on feed more quickly, Baby Pig Restart APF also provides additional nutrients and energy needed to help avoid starve-outs and stunting.Baby Pig Restart APF is fortified with vitamins, electrolytes, enzymes and microbial cultures.

Animal Species: Piglets, Swine

Features: Improves Feed Intake

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    Key Benefits
    • Highly palatable and aromatic: attracts pigs to feed allowing quicker weaning transition
    • Acidified to help promote optimum digestion
    • Can be top-dressed, mixed in drinking water or drenched
    • Offered in an animal protein free formula which does not contain animal proteins
    • Original Baby Pig Restart, contains bovine blood plasma and protein; whey and animal energy sources

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    When To Use:

    • Top-dress on starter feeds to entice young pigs to consume dry feed after weaning
    • Add to gruel to provide added energy and nutrients to reduce fall behinds when pigs are weaned
    • Introduce the last 2-3 days before weaning
    • Use to restart fall-back pigs

    Directions For Use

    • Apply Baby Pig Restart APF as an attractant to get pigs on feed.
    • Top Dressing: Top dress 1/4 to 1/2 ounce by weight (1/2 – 1 fl. oz or 1 cup per 16 pigs) per pig on the starter ration in the feeder trough twice per day for 2 days.  Targeted feeding rate of no more than 1 ounce/pig/day.
    • Liquid Feeding (Gruel): Post weaning:  Mix 1 part Baby Pig Restart APF with 2 parts of water to create a gruel solution.  Feed 1/2 gallon of gruel per 20 pigs, three times per day for 2 days.  Add starter feed to gruel solution starting with small amount the first feeding and gradually increase each feeding.
    • Farrowing crate: Feed 1/4 ounce per pig per day 2-3 days prior to weaning

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