Pre-starter feed: invest now and reap dividends later
The period when a young animal starts to eat commercial feed can set it up for success its whole lifetime. Young animal nutrition is fundamental to ensure a healthy life of growth and production. A nutritionally balanced ration that includes everything a young animal needs in the form that they will eat is a key component of long-term success. Using the correct pre-starter feed formula will pay dividends by getting the animal started down a path towards a healthy and productive life.
Challenges for young animals
A baby animal’s life is often filled with stress. Competition for food, susceptibility to viruses and diseases, and negative environmental factors can make the early phase of life especially difficult.
Possibly one of the biggest stressors in a young animal’s life is the weaning process. Making weaning smoother and easing the transition from milk to solid feed is a key challenge. Getting animals started on a pre-starter feed during the starter phase will make the transition to regular starter feed easier and reduce weaning stress.
Maximize their potential
When it comes to poultry, a day-old chick has strong growth potential. In fact, the maximum growth for the chick occurs in the first week of life. The success of the first week is related to success in the finishing phase; there is a positive correlation between live weight at 7 days old and slaughter weight. This time is also important to the success of the performance of layers and breeding birds.
Similarly, a piglet’s early life is a short period that determines lifetime performance. During the first weeks of life, the piglet is immature and extremely sensitive to environmental stress. Early life intervention with ideal feed guarantees optimal gut development and long-term benefits.
Likewise, calf feeding during the pre-weaning period is decisive. The nature of the nutrients that are provided in the solid feed will allow the rapid development of the rumen papillae, and the establishment of rumination, a key factor of success for the future dairy cow or the fattening cattle.
These examples can be repeated for many species of young animals. The bottom line is that the right nutrition in the early phase of life will help maximize potential later.
Wisium pre-starter products
To address the multiple stressors and issues affecting young animals, Wisium has developed pre-starter feed products that provide optimal nutritional support during this critical time.
Wean Up, a piglet pre-starter feed
The piglet’s early life is a short period that determines a pig‘s lifetime performance. During the first weeks of life, the piglet is immature and very sensitive to environmental stress. Early life intervention with ideal feed guarantees optimal gut development and long-term benefits.
Wean up, expert program for piglets
Wean Up is an international feeding program for optimal farm management. Just like all our other feeding programs, it offers a full package of nutritional solutions and recommendations. Wean Up is a synergic approach based on a complete range of products dedicated to every stage of a piglet’s life and a customized technical support to amplify a product’s positive effects.
Wisium experts are your partners to measure your farm’s performances and identify areas of improvement. We focus on a short term investment for long term benefits.
Wean Up results for better performances:
- Reduce pre-weaning mortality
- Higher feed intake
- Guarantee digestive security
- Prepare the gut to improve lifetime growth
ADM Vision, a range of milk replacers
The ADM Vision rearing calf program incorporates the latest research data in calf nutrition to ensure calf health. Different feeding programs are offered to meet the different farming contexts and the expectations of the farmers. The formulation of the feed integrates natural additives tested and validated in our research centers, which allow the rapid establishment of rumination.
The performance of adult cows depends on the development of young calves during the first weeks of life. Growth delay during the first months of young ruminant’s life will not be caught up.
ADM Vision, the Wisium range of milk replacers
ADM Vision milk replacers are specially designed to ensure a good start and prepare the future cow and goat. Our products are formulated with high-quality dairy and vegetal raw materials selected for their nutritional values. These raw materials are obtained by an original process which allows to keep the quality of nutrients and their digestibility. The re-fattening spray technique leads to complete solubility and ensures palatability and ease of use.
ADM Vision results for better performances:
- Optimum nutritional supply that ensures optimal growth before weaning
- Higher security that prevents any growth delay
- Limit digestive troubles risk thanks to a selection of ingredients of upper quality allowing an efficient digestion
- Customized formulation adapted to growth targets