Show afo TO NEWS LIBERAL FEEDING OF BROOD SOWS generous rations while nursing pigs Profi profitable tab e liberal feeding of brood sows bows while they are nursing their utters litters pays big dividends declares B W fairbanks associate professor of animal husbandry at the colorado agricultural college excellent rations can be balanced with skim shim milk or butter milli bran aran shorts ground oats wheat barley or corn he adds A little elitle leafy alfalfa hay builds up the quality y of the proteins and r supplies vi tamine A in discussing the weaning of pigs fairbanks says that when the pigs are two to three weeks old they will drink from a 4 trough iri id addition to the their I 1 r nursing A shallow allow sli flat fiat hot bot tomed trough placed in a pig creek is ideal for the feeding of additional milk fresh milk Is generally fed the first d day ay or two and then skim milk is substituted or shorts may be mixed with tue the skim milk and fed as a thin slop twice dally daily I 1 I 1 when the pigs have learned to take freely of the shorts or middling slop they are ready to wean according to fairbanks banks tills this usually occurs when they are seven to ten weeks of age age if skim milk Is not available it will be necessary to keep them on the sows bows longer after weaning a slop oi of I 1 shorts short sor or or corn meal Is offered twice daily at first the pigs should receive a ration with a liberal supply of protein but this may be reduced slightly later |