BEGINS WITH
VIDA
Facing up to life’s challenges Today’s piglets face significant challenges and stress in the period from birth to weaning. Immediately post birth young piglets have to compete for sufficient colostrum and milk to ensure optimum live weight gain and to trigger the animal’s natural immune system. After weaning the piglet’s gut must adapt rapidly to many changes, including the introduction of solid feeds. This adaptation occurs while the piglet’s immune system is developing, increasing its vulnerability.
Challenges immediately after birth • Increasing litter sizes (15 or more piglets) • Increased competition for sow milk • Lower birth weight, greater spread of weights, including more tail-enders
Challenges in and around weaning • Immunity gap • Post weaning dip/gut health issue • Feed intake challenges/risk of diarrhoea • Restricted use of medication and the ban of antibiotic growth promoters • Overcrowded pens
Objectives to achieve The pressure on rearing piglets is continuing to increase for today’s pig producer. This trend is exacerbated by a stricter legislative environment, together with higher disease challenges. At the same time, structural changes in the pig industry are increasing at a never ending rate. Ultimately, however, each and every pig producer is looking to achieve lower levels of mortality, greater uniformity and improved enterprise profitability. In this challenging environment solutions need to be easy to apply, with an assurance that the interventions made are of a higher quality, supported by the very best knowledge, advice and services producers can access.
Pig producers’ objectives • Lower disease and mortality • Improved uniformity and consistency in body weights • Enhanced financial results
Pig producers expectations from their feed supplier • Feeding concepts and programmes that are easy to understand and apply • Consistent, safe and high quality feed • Providing the very best piglet rearing and nutritional advice • Consistent levels of delivery and service
Life begins with VIDA... The new VIDA piglet starter range has been developed to ensure total piglet performance from birth to slaughter and maximize returns for the producer. In each phase of the piglet’s life, the new VIDA feeds offer the best solution to meet the many challenges piglets face in their young lives. The new VIDA range includes: • A milk replacer (VIDA Milk) offering supplementary nutrition in addition to the sow’s natural milk supply • A prestarter feed (VIDA Pre Starter) containing highly digestible protein sources all aimed at increasing the piglet’s appetite and to prepare the gut for solid feed • A unique precision feeding concept for weaning up to 50/70 days to maximize feed intake and to encourage healthy growth
The nutrition they need. The results you want The benefits as shown below are based on many years of research and recent field trials at more than 40 modern farms in Northern Europe and the UK.
Features
Benefits
• Consistently high feed intake • Higher growth • Highly digestible raw materials leading to highly digestible finished feed • Greater Daily Liveweight Gain • In feed support for the piglet’s natural immune system • Gut Health supporter (Babycare) features in the VIDA range • VIDA Milk and VIDA Pre Starter enhance early gut maturation • Highly digestible protein sources unique to VIDA
• Improved gut health
• VIDA milk in addition to the sow’s natural milk • Tasty and highly palatable feed to minimize the post weaning dip
• Lower mortality rates • Better profit for pig producers
• Flexible product range & feeding programme • Greater uniformity
• Improved Feed Conversion • Lower cost per kg live weight gain • Potential savings on medication
“I was mistaken in my view that ForFarmers was not a specialist piglet feed company, but having tested their new range I now realise they are. VIDA beat my current supplier on Growth, feed conversion and cost per kg.” Outdoor producer East Anglia
Created by Nutritionists. Valued by Farmers VIDA is a proven nutritional concept for piglets and has four unique elements that set our solutions apart from other suppliers • An Exclusive Range of Quality Ingredients • Dedicated production facilities • Personal expertise and professional support • A unique collaboration of ForFarmers and Milkiwean by Trouw Nutrition, global specialist in science-based piglet nutrition
An Exclusive Range of Quality Ingredients The selected raw materials are essential for achieving highly digestible piglet feeds. The production teams in ForFarmers and Trouw Nutrition understand that the piglets feeds they manufacture contain very specific ingredients that require special care and attention to ensure optimum nutritional effectiveness. Quality control measures are at a very high level which meet exacting auditing standards. VIDA contains highly digestible raw materials, cleaned and finely ground ingredients and extruded soya bean meal. This maximizes protein digestibility and enhances gut health.
Dedicated production facilities
VIDA is manufactured in dedicated production lines for piglet feed. This enables a strong focus on the specific requirements of piglet feeds. VIDA is produced by ForFarmers’ highly skilled production team ensuring strict control over key quality and bio-security factors.
Personal expertise and professional support VIDA is supported by a team of highly professional specialists with specific expertise in piglet nutrition and production. ForFarmers’ team of technical advisers understand the pig producers’ daily business and the many challenges they face. The team supports producers to establish best practice and assist in improving business performance from a management, housing, health and nutritional perspective. A broad and practically based range of tools is available to our customers to thoroughly investigate issues and determine the best feeding program for the individual pig producer.
Two names you can trust, one feed you can rely on VIDA is the result of the first collaboration between two leading nutrition specialists; ForFarmers and Trouw Nutrition. Milkiwean is a global piglet feeding concept from Trouw Nutrition, underpinned by world class scientific research and product application know-how. The unique collaboration between ForFarmers’ Nutrition Innovation Centre (NIC) and Trouw Nutrition’s dedicated R&D assets offers a level of innovative nutritional solutions not seen before. This with the partnership’s knowledge of raw materials, specific production facilities, and their combined scientific research together with ForFarmers’ strong customer relationships and local expertise makes VIDA a unique and leading concept, delivering a lifetime of total piglet performance.
“We are able to weigh piglets regularly during the nursery phase and monitor performance very closely. The trial on ForFarmers new diets showed a 0.1 improvement in FCR and 19g per day faster growth compared with my usual Vitostart diets. This was the best performance we have seen in years.” Large indoor producer, South of England
Going for Growth? Trust VIDA Each producer is always looking for improved physical performance from their stock which leads to superior business results. Each element has its own strategy. The skills, efforts and care invested in livestock farming needs to be in balance with producer’s business objectives. VIDA offers a range of options specific for each and every farming situation, each aimed at optimizing total piglet performance.
The VIDA Range VIDA ULTIMA Aiming for the ultimate performance. Challenging the piglets to reach their maximum genetic growth potential.
VIDA MAXIMA Stimulates a high feed intake which results in excellent growth. This is achieved by an efficient feed conversion ratio ensuring optimum cost per kilo and Live Weight Gain.
Try VIDA and learn more about the benefits of total piglet performance. Contact your local account manager at ForFarmers. Telephone 08700 500 328 or info.uk@forfarmers.eu For more information, visit:
www.lifebeginswithvida.co.uk