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Show FEEDING PIGS AFTER WCANING Material Kuril Ishcd by 1 'epnrt nienl of Animal Husbandry, 1'lah Agricultural Agri-cultural College Tho critical tlmo In tho 11 To of the pig Is Just after weaning, especially if It has been weaned early In order to breed tho sow for u second Utter. If, however, they iiavo loarnrd to eat while ailll with tliolr mother the Job la much easier. As the stomach of young pigs Ih exceptionally ex-ceptionally small for the size of the animal, they must have a rotation which Is not too bulky. Skim milk may ho fed abundantly, but should bo supplemented with other fends. It skim milk Is cheap, possibly ono iHiiind of grain should be led with eight or ten pouuils of skim milk. If skim milk Is scarce, tho proirtlon may bo cut down to three or four pounds of milk to ono pound of grain. Whether to feed tho skim milk warm or cold, sweet or bout, Is a mill-t mill-t r of convenience. Care should bo taken, however, to follow conslstantly whichever of these systems Is adopted, adopt-ed, as nil animals are creatures -of regular habits and resent Midden changes In their feed. If n change must bo made It should bo done gradually grad-ually thus eliminating most of the danger. A change from warm swcot milk to cold sour milk can safely bo made by feeding tho milk a little cooler each day and substituting n little lit-tle sour milk for some of the swiM until the pigs are on a full ration of cold sour milk. r.uttermilk can replace skim milk-In milk-In pig ration und can be considered of eniual fo ding value. Whey from cheese factories is not a very desirable feed for young pits na nearly all of the muscle building material has been removed In the cheese making process. Neither of these fteds should tt fed unless they are thoroughly gteril-i gteril-i z e 1 . us feeding Infevted nilik from tubercular rows won spreads this disease through the pig". Where cream has been well pasteurized before be-fore being churn-d, the resulting but termilk ran be fed w ithout danger. Semi-solid r.uttermilk, n commercial commer-cial product now on the market can be fed as It comes from the bartvls in which It Is shipped, though better results might be expected If mixed with water and grain. The chbf objection ob-jection to this feed Is Its high price, but even at a rather high price it may be used successfully in growing pun!re(l pigs or plg9 thnt are being rushed. With neither skim milk or buttermilk butter-milk available, a pretty satisfactory ration for young pigs can be made by mixing one part of tankage, a byproduct by-product of the slaughter house which contains about 60 per cent of protein, to seven to ten parts of shorts or finely ground (barley. This should be soaked In water enough to make a medium slop. If an alfalfa patch Is available Into In-to which the old sow and her litter can be turned many troubles are avoided. Alfalfa can hardly be considered con-sidered a3 more than enough to maintain main-tain the weight of pigs, so that for growth some additional grain must be allowed. Afternoon or evening Is probably pro-bably the best time to feed the grain us the pigs will be hungry enough In the morning to spend the day to good advantage eating the alfalfa. As the old sow's milk flow decreases decreas-es It may be desirable to shut off her grain supply. This may be done by building in the corner of the pasture a pig creep which will permit the little lit-tle pigs getting to the grain but will keep out the sow. The young pigs will need an allowance of from one to three pounds of grain for each 100 pounds live weight while on pasture for most economical gains. |