What can I feed a baby piglet?

 Newborn piglets are generally bottle fed commercially available milk

replacer for piglets and given starter food until about seven weeks of
age, when they are weaned completely on to solid food. All pigs, even
nursing piglets, should be offered fresh water daily.

How much do you feed a baby pig?

 After weaning, each piglet should receive 3/4 cup of food per day,
using at least a 16% protein grower ration. Your judgment comes into
play here, but I firmly believe that 3/4 cup per day per pig is the
minimum for this age range.

How do you feed small pigs?

 First, liquid milk should be offered until pigs are about 10 days of age.

This can be an option also for pigs without a foster sow. Liquid milk
should be discontinued as soon as pigs start consuming solid feed.
Second, from about 7 days of age, a very palatable dry feed should be
offered in addition to liquid milk.

What should you not feed pigs?

 What not to feed pigs is anything moldy, slimy, or rotten. Raw meat
and raw eggs should never be fed to swine. Feeding raw meat to pigs
can transfer diseases such as foot and mouth disease. Eating raw eggs
can interfere with the biotin absorption of pigs.
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