Pre-weaning piglet mortality is an important economic and welfare problem in the commercial pig industry.
Energy deficit is one of the main pre-disposing risk factors for piglet mortality.
Management strategies , such as energy supplementation to neonatal piglets, may reduce pre-weaning mortality.
In practice, energy supplementation might be implemented in the farrowing management.
Energy supplements may provide energy to neonatal piglets as well as improve their colostrum intake