Herd Health: What to do about post-weaning pigs that fail to thrive?

Many remedies have been tried to alleviate what some call ‘Post-Weaning Catabolic Syndrome’ but with limited results

by S.ERNEST SANFORD

At the last University of Minnesota Leman Swine Conference in September 2008, a panel consisting of Drs. Luc Dufresne from Seaboard Foods, Steve Henry from Abilene Animal Hospital in Abilene, Kan., and Tom Fangman from Boehringer Ingelheim (USA) presented their collective findings on an evolving syndrome of post-weaning pigs that fail to thrive. They labelled this “Post-Weaning Catabolic Syndrome.” 

Better Pork - April 2009