Newborn Management Indoors

Newborn piglets are poorly equipped to keep warm immediately after birth and as the energy reserves to produce body heat (glycogen stored in the liver) are limited, the combination of factors below means that piglets often become chilled. Number 14 in the series Action for Productivity from BPEX.
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