Why Are These Piglets Drinking Voluntarily So Early?

Early voluntary intake can be a challenge during a piglet’s first days of life. But what changes when a nutritional solution is designed to resemble what piglets naturally recognise?

Tonisity Px is formulated with high palatability, featuring a sweet-sour flavour profile (pH ~4) and a texture designed to resemble sow’s milk, supporting voluntary intake from as early as day 2 of life.

The evidence shows strong acceptance:
• Average intake: 445 ml from the 500 ml offered daily per litter
• By day 8, 90% of litters consume more than 400 ml

High palatability may also help improve oral medication intake, with studies showing piglets consumed:
• 94% of prescribed antibiotics when delivered with Tonisity Px
• 33% when mixed with water alone

When intake is voluntary, consistent and established early, opportunities to support intestinal development may begin sooner.

What has been most effective on your farms to improve oral intake in young piglets? Share your experience in the comments.

In an increasingly competitive swine industry, better piglet performance must also make operational and economic sense.

With labour availability, production costs and pig values under constant pressure, farms and large swine integrators must evaluate more than product performance alone. Preparation time, application protocol, flexibility, cost and measurable return all influence which solutions can be successfully implemented at scale.

That is why pig producers and integrators around the world choose Tonisity Px: a practical nutritional solution developed to support piglet performance without adding unnecessary complexity to the daily farm routine.

Tonisity Px. Easy to prepare. Simple to apply. Proven to perform.

➡ Discover Tonisity Px: https://www.tonisity.com/tonisity-px

📍 Find your nearest Tonisity distributor: https://www.tonisity.com/distributors

As temperatures rise, producers may face hidden challenges linked to lower feed intake, dehydration pressure and compromised gut function.

In this article, we explore:
✓ Heat stress and lactating sow feed intake
✓ The impact on piglet vitality and post-weaning adaptation
✓ Commercial observations reporting 71% lower sow mortality and 61.6% fewer fall-behind piglets under summer conditions
✓ Practical hydration and management strategies for hot periods

Explore the full technical review

Last week at the ESPHM Congress in Florence, we presented two new scientific posters exploring the impact of early-life micro-enteral nutrition on piglet performance.
At Tonisity, we believe robust science means generating evidence across countries, production systems and commercial farm conditions, building data that reflects the realities veterinarians and producers face in the field.
These latest findings add to growing research associated with early-life nutrition, supporting gut integrity and helping piglets better cope with critical stress periods.
It was also a pleasure connecting with customers, distributors and industry colleagues in Florence. Thank you to everyone involved, especially the Tonisity team behind the research, analysis and presentation of this work.

In animal production, one good result can be chance. But when the same outcome repeats across systems, regions, and conditions, it becomes evidence.

We’re proud to share updated results from our global meta-analyses on pre-weaning mortality, weights, and fall-behinds.

This level of robust, repeatable evidence reflects years of field work, scientific discipline, and a commitment to delivering results producers and veterinarians can trust.

See the full data here: https://contents.tonisity.com/tonisity-px-pig-pre-weaning-mortality-weight-gain