Baby Pig Restart® is a gruel or top-dress powder supplement for feed intake of young pigs.

Weaning can be a traumatic experience for a young pig. The sweet taste of Baby Pig Restart draws pigs in transition to dry feed, ensuring that each baby pig gets the additional nutrients and energy needed to help avoid starve-outs and stunting. All pigs, at any stage of transition, can benefit from the added electrolytes and acidification as a way to provide energy and help balance the gut pH. 

Baby Pig Restart is also available in an Animal Protein Free formula, Baby Pig Restart APF.

When to Use:

• Top-dress on starters to entice young pigs to consume dry feed after weaning
• Add to gruel to provide added energy and nutrients to reduce fall behinds when pigs are weaned
• Use it on farrowing crate mats to provide challenged litters with critical nutrients to help prevent starve-outs or stunting

Baby Pig Restart is fortified with vitamins, electrolytes, enzymes and microbial cultures.

Key Benefits

Highly palatable and aromatic: attracts pigs to feed allowing quicker weaning transition
Acidified to help promote optimum digestion
Can be top-dressed, mixed in drinking water or drenched
Offered in an animal protein free formula which does not contain animal proteins
Original Baby Pig Restart, contains bovine blood plasma and protein; whey and animal energy sources

Directions For Use

Baby Pig Restart

Use product for 2 days, whether on feed or in water.

Top-Dressing:
Top dress 1/2 ounce per pig on the starter ration in the feeder trough twice per day for 2 days. Targeted feeding rate of no more than 1 ounce/pig/day.

Liquid Feeding (Gruel):

Day 1 post weaning: Mix 4 ounces of Baby Pig Restart in 1 quart of warm water to form a palatable gruel. Feed one quart gruel per 20 pigs two to three times per day in a pan to attract pigs.

Oral Feeding for One- to Five-Day-Old Pigs:
Mix one part of Baby Pig Restart with two parts of water and stir well to make a suspension. Slowly feed 0.5 oz (15 ml) of the suspension on the back of the tongue to severely stunted or starved 1-5 day-old piglets. Repeat as needed, typically feed 1 oz (30 ml) of suspension, with a maximum of 2 oz (60 ml) of suspension/pig/day.

Baby Pig Restart APF

Apply Baby Pig Restart APF as an attractant to get pigs on feed.

Top Dressing:
Top dress 1/3 ounce per pig on the starter ration in the feeder trough twice per day for 2 days. Targeted feeding rate of no more than 1 ounce/pig/day.

Liquid Feeding (Gruel):
Post weaning: Mix 1 part Baby Pig Restart APF with 2 parts of water to create a gruel solution. Feed 1/2 gallon of gruel per 20 pigs, three times per day for 2 days. Add starter feed to gruel solution starting with small amount the first feeding and gradually increase each feeding.

Weight to Volume Conversion: 1/2 ounce by weight of Baby Pig Restart APF = 1 fluid ounce by volume.