Show LIVE m NEWS LIBERAL FEEDING 1 OF BROOD SOWS SOWS' Generous R Rations n ti 0 n s Whilo Nursing Pigs Profitable Liberal feeding of If brood 10 sows ow while they are lire nursing naming their litters pays bl big dividends declares U IV 11 W. W Fairbanks associate professor of animal an an- imal intal husbandry at the Colorado Morado Agricultural Agricultural Agri Air cultural college colleg Excellent rations can ran be balanced with skim milk or buttermilk bran shorts ground oats wheat what barley batley or rom corn corn- he hI adds A little leafy alfalfa hay builds build up the quality of ot the proteins pro pro- and nd supplies II vitamins vitamin limine A HA In discussing the weaning of or pIn pigs Fairbanks says nays that when the pigs pig are arc two to three I weeks old they will drink from a trough In addition to tit their nursing A A. shallow fiat flat flat-bot bot tamed tomed trough placed In a pig creek is I. Ideal deal for tor the feeding of ot additional milk I Fresh milk Is generally fed the first day or two and then skim aklar milk U la substituted or shorts aborts ma may mar maybe marbe be bo mixed with lIh the skim milk and fed ted fedas as a II thin slop twice dally When the pigs have haTe learned to take freely treely of ot the shorts or middling slop they are ready to wean ean according to Fairbanks This usually occurs when they thy ore are seven leven to ten wf weeks k of ot ago age If Jt skim milk Is not Mt available It V wilts wilt lit Ibe I Ibe be necessary to k keep p them on th the sows sow longer After weaning a slop Iop of ot shorts or orr orl III nIl or corn meal Is I. offered twice dally At first the pigs pip should 4 receive a ration with a liberal ft IU supply of ot protein but this may may be redu reduced slightly later |