SPECIAL COMPOUND FEED AND IMMUNOSTIMULATOR FOR RAISING SUCKLING PIGS
One of the main problems during raising and organization offeeding piglets by sows is that they get used to eating various top dressings and special compound feeds, as soon as possible, warning against various diseases (diarrhea, anemia). Based on it, they should be provided with zoohygienic standards of maintenance, care and feeding. Compliance with all these conditions will ensure and strengthen the health of suckling piglets, improve their safety and survival. It will allow in the subsequent stages, that is, when growing, fattening or growing for repairs, to show high productivity at the expense of good health. Feeding piglets up to 2 months of age is the most important period in the life of a piglet. At the beginning of their life, the first two weeks, the only food of suckling pigs is sow's milk. The required amount of nutrients up to 3 weeks of age is met, as a rule, at the expense of sow's milk, but from the first days of life they need to be additionally fed. The aim of the article is to study the effectiveness of using special compound feeds (superstarter, prestarter, starter) as top dressing and feedfor suckling piglets, as well as using an immunostimulator to maintain their health, better growth and development. As a result of the research, it was revealed that suckling pigs that received special superstarter, prestarter and starter feed, depending on their age, as well as young animals that were additionally intramuscularly injected with an immunostimulator, had a higher safety by 6.97% in the 1 experimental group and by 7.3% in the 2 experimental group, and growth rate. Suckling pigs of the second experimental group grew the best during the experimental period (60 days) and amounted to 17.68 kg, which is more than in the control group by 1.2 kg or 7.28% and by 0.63 kg or 3.7% in the first experimental group, respectively. The milk content of sows of the 2 experimental group was 59.0 kg, which is higher than in the control group by 11.1 kg or 23.2% and in the 1 experimental group-by 2.75 kg or 4.9%. The deviation between the experimental piglets of the control group and the 1 experimental group according to this indicator was 8.35 kg or 17.4% in favor of the 1 experimental group.