The newly developed herbal mixture HERBENTEROSAN primarily contains local herbs of European origin as well as zeolite. These herbs can either be cultivated by the farmer himself or obtained in pharmacopoeia quality with little effort. We can also cultivate Rhaponticum carthamoides used in the mixture Preliminary tests by HAGMÜLLER et al. (2005) with additional feeding of Rhaponticum carthamoides to piglets were able to show that even when high doses were fed, there were no negative effects on feed intake or feed utilization.

Diarrhea occurs frequently in weaned piglets and is associated with reduced live weight gain. This means that it is not only a health problem, but also an economically important one. In order to avoid losses due to lower increases, the planned

An herbal mixture “HERBENTEROSAN” was used for the examination, which is intended to serve as a prophylaxis for post-natal diarrhea. In this experiment, the effect of galacturonides from apples and the effect of a lignocellulose product on diarrhea in piglets is tested in comparison to the herbal mixture “HERBENTEROSAN”. An assessment is made based on the following parameters: live mass gain, feed conversion, faecal score and haptoglobin content in the serum. The aim of the study is to reduce the proportion of animals with diarrhea after weaning.