Improve Your Bottom Line and Cut Your Losses Short
FerAppease can help you prioritize your pigs' welfare and help them respond better to stressful events while improving your profitability.
Shift Your Pigs from Surviving to Thriving
Stress and aggression is known to induce drastic changes in the way pigs utilize nutrients.
Epinephrin & Cortisol
The stress hormone epinephrin is known to increase gastrointestinal movement which causes nutrients to exit the body before they are fully digested. A second stress hormone, cortisol, is known to induce insulin resistance and catabolism, meaning that fat and muscle tissues are breaking down to provide energy to the stressed body.
Survival Mode
Stressed pigs are in survival mode, where the priority is to provide resources to the body in order for flight or to fight an eminent treat, and this metabolic status is very energy inefficient. You can overcome this obstacle with FerAppease MSAS.
FerAppease MSAS
The active ingredient of FerAppease is a synthetic analogue of the Maternal Swine Appeasing Substance (MSAS). MSAS is a naturally occurring substance that is secreted by the skin of the mammary gland of lactating sows, eliminating stress in all swine treated.
Block the Stress. Face Fewer Costly Challenges!
FerAppease can and should be used every time swine are exposed to management and physiological stressors, where suppression of threat perception is desirable.
Weaning
Castration
Vaccination
Processing
Commingling
Transportation
Farrowing
Interruption of lactation (dry off)
Breeding
Heat stress mitigation
FerAppease in the Field
Scientific Data
Piglets Post-Weaning (Nursery)
FerAppease decreased mortality rate by 33% and increased weight gain by 20%
Sows Post-Commingling
FerAppease decreased the total number of aggressions 2-days after commingling by 49% and the average duration of aggressions after treatment by 24%
References
2. Leonardo Bringhenti. (2023). Evaluation of a single administration of FerAppease at nursery arrival on weight gain and mortality. [Manuscript in preparation].