Farrowing (0-4 weeks)

Piglets are kept in small pens with their mother until they are weaned; once weaned they are about 13-15 lbs.

Nursery (4-11 weeks)

Once weaned, piglets will be put into larger pens and continue to grow to around 60 lbs.

The Shur Gain Milkiwean Best Start feed program is targeted to producers who want to achieve maximum growth and performance during the nursery period. The formulas have been created to contain a variety of highly digestible protein sources as well as using a blend of slow and rapidly digestible starches in order to avoid insulin spikes and promote steady digestion of nutrients. The energy level and amino acid balance is optimized to drive growth and efficiency in the piglets. Our stores stock the following:

Milkiwean Best Start 1 (easy wean)
Milkiwean Best Start 2
Milkiwean Best Start 3
Milkiwean Best Start 4

Growing/Finishing (11-27 weeks)

They will again be moved to another larger pen to accommodate their continued growth, up to 280lbs when ready for market! Larger pigs will eat up to 10lbs of feed a day.

Our stores offer different grower feeds:

Tricounty Feeds Bronze hog grower
Tricounty Feeds Amish hog grower pellet

ShurGain has a whole line up if premixes for farmers to use with their own corn and soymeal to make complete feed on the farm.