Exploring the fragility of a piglet’s gut

Enteric diseases, including the development of diarrhoea, are an often seen problem in raising piglets, causing severe economic losses due to premature death, reduced piglet performance as well as accumulating costs from treatment as well as diagnostic measures. But why are piglets so highly susceptible to germs which don’t affect older animals and why is their course of disease often much more dramatic? When it comes to diarrhoea in piglets besides infections, four other factor complexes hav