FiberWell Stick - Roughage for more animal welfare!

## **Material to keep pigs occupied roughage.** 

**Roughage is feed that is rich in crude fiber, feeds rich in structure. It should be eatable, chewable, and it must be movable and workable.**

It should be possible to investigate, move and change the material, and it should be suitable for exploratory behavior. The material must be able to be moved or lifted close to the ground and its look or structure must be changeable. The pigs should also be able to change their location or position.

### Innovation VILOFOSS® FiberWell Stick

• Fulfills all the requirements of an roughage as an material to keep pigs occupied

• High quality raw fiber carrier

• Inexpensive and easy to use (wall mount)

• Supports the play instinct and the exploratory behavior

• As an additional raw fiber supply it stabilizes the intestinal flora and the immune system; this enables more resistant, more satisfied and less aggressive pigs.

• no dogged slatted floors

• no building of floating layers

### Advantages of raw fiber use:

• Stimulation of digestive and intestine passage processes

• Minimization of constipation

• Easier defecation

• High swelling behavior > Stronger feeling of satiety > more calmness in the barn

• Increase in enzyme secretion through mechanical stimulation of the intestinal wall

• Binding of bacterial metabolic products

• Shift of N excretion from urine to manure the feces > better stable climate

### Application description:

FiberWell Sticks are very hard pressed alfalfa sticks that pigs can play with and nibble on in their pens. When used in a wall bracket, it is available to the pigs as activity material. The FiberWell sticks with a diameter of approx. 65 mm fit in almost all standard wall brackets from various manufacturers. Consumption can be regulated by adjusting the opening on the wall bracket. An animal-friendly installation height of the wall brackets must also be observed.

### In practice it shows:

The lack of suitable roughage can be causing, in addition to a less than optimal housing climate, health problems, competition for resources such as feed and water (stocking density), a less than optimal diet, and inadequate structuring and hygiene of the pen, causing aggression behavior up to tail biting.

## FiberWell Stick

* Promotes intestinal health

* High hygiene status

* More animal welfare, less stress

* More calm, less aggression

* Flexible and easy to use

* Low feed losses

* QS-qualified feed

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