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It is essential that feeding practices and farrowing-house conditions allow the sow to consume a high quantity of feed. A high lactation feed intake is needed to maintain high milk production and a minimum loss of body fat. Sows should be brought up to full-feed as quickly as possible after they farrow, but some producers have observed a higher incidence of constipation and mastitis, metritis, and agalactia (MMA) if this comptracker is done too rapidly. It has been demonstrated that sows vary in their comptracker desire to consume feed, during the initial week postpartum. comptracker Sows that lactate for 14 days or less will have a lower feed intake than those that have a longer lactation period. Consequently, with shorter lactation lengths, the diet needs to be fortified to a higher nutrient content to ensure that milk production demands are met and that the weaning to rebreeding interval is not prolonged. Feed intake will increase each week during a four-week lactation period. First-parity animals normally consume less feed during lactation than older sows.
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