Today’s episode will cover Designing the modern sow farm from a nutritionist's perspective.

“In a stall barn, typically, we don't know where those gilts versus older sows are going to be located, so we feed a common diet which commonly over formulates those nutrients for the older sows who are done growing, and just needing maintenance and the development of the growing fetus.” – Dr. Hyatt Frobose.

Our guest is Dr. Hyatt Frobose, one of the bright minds of the Global Swine Industry. Dr. Frobose is Swine Nutritionist and USA Business Director with JYGA Technologies. He completed his Ph.D. in swine management and nutrition at Kansas State University, received his B.S and M.S. degrees from KSU and was a 2010 US Fulbright Scholar to Australia. Hyatt’s doctoral research evaluated stimulating estrus in sows during late lactation as a means to improve sow welfare and the use of novel feeding technologies to optimize sow performance.

What you will learn:

• An introduction about himself and his career;
• GDU feeding and design;
• Gilt development for research (nutrition);
• Gestation feeding;
• Feeding the transition sow;
• Lactation feeding;
• What separate successful swine professionals from those that are not.

Hyatt’s favorite swine-related book: The gestation and lactating sow (Chantel Farmer)

Hyatt’s favorite book unrelated to swine: Born to Run (Christopher McDougall)

Edited by Lauro Faccin