Episode Details

In this special episode of the Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, we bring you a crossover with The Swine it Podcast Show Canada. Co-host Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra sits down with Dr. Anja Strathe from the University of Copenhagen to discuss practical sow feeding strategies, piglet birth weight, early gestation nutrition, and mortality around farrowing in hyperprolific systems. Dr. Strathe shares how research-based insights can help shape better nutritional decisions for sow herds. Listen now on all major platforms.

If you follow the swine industry in Canada or want to stay close to what is happening there, check out The Swine it Podcast Show Canada. Listen now on all major platforms!

"Piglet birth weight is really correlated to piglet mortality, and very small piglets require extensive management to survive in modern hyper prolific systems."

Meet the guest: Dr. Anja Varmløse Strathe is an Associate Professor in Porcine Nutrition at the University of Copenhagen. She has worked with sow nutrition for over a decade in Denmark and the U.S. Dr. Anja earned her MSc in Agronomy and PhD from the University of Copenhagen. Her focus includes fundamental studies on sow physiology and applied nutrition research in partnership with the swine industry.

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What you will learn: 

• (00:00) Highlight
• (01:21) Introduction
• (01:51) Importance of sow nutrition
• (04:17) Improving piglet birthweight
• (06:21) Trials insights
• (09:49) Nutritional strategies
• (13:19) Closing thoughts

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