Kayla Law - Altering the piglet microbiome - can a different disinfection method help?

Swine Nutrition Blackbelt podcast #7
calendar icon 29 March 2022
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A lot of recent research has highlighted the effects of having beneficial bacteria colonize the gut in young piglets. The difficult issue is finding a way to keep the population of beneficial bacteria high, while reducing the amount of harmful bacteria. In this episode Kayla Law shares her research with me, Clayton Chastain, about different disinfection methods in sow gestation crates measuring the resulting effects in growth performance and gut microbial colonization in the piglet.

Márcio Gonçalves

Founder of Swine it

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