Feed, they should be on about 20kg a day.
This sounds a bit heavy on the feeding Do you mean 20 pounds BB ?
You'd be looking at each sow getting 3Kg (or 6lbs) plus half a kilo (1lb) for each piglet (16piglets = 8Kg)
So, by my reckoning that's only 14Kg or 28lbs
There seems to be some rule about lactating sow rations, that they cannot ever be added up correctly!
Karen, I am pretty sure that 6 + 16 = 22 (lbs) and 3 + 8 = 11 (kg) ; where am I going wrong?
Meanwhile, I cannot seem to get the same answer in two places about how much for her for the piglets. Before she was pregnant Meg was getting just under 4lb a day plus a bit of whey. (And was frankly
a bit fat carrying a bit too much condition.) As per the Andy Case book I doubled her rations in the last three weeks before farrowing. Back to 4lbs on farrowing and now with 5 piglets I had understood I would want to take her up to 6-and-a-half pounds a day plus some whey. But a few places have said 1lb / piglet / day at three weeks...
She would certainly eat more than I am giving her and I can see her figure is returning, so I think she needs more than I'm giving her.
So, today was day 4; what would you be feeding her now and in 24 days time?