This mismatch between liveborn pigs and teat capacity has increased interest in management strategies such as split suckling and teat optimization. Split suckling is used to ensure all piglets, especially those in large litters, receive adequate colostrum. The process of split suckling involves temporarily removing a portion of the litter from the sow, so the remaining piglets have greater access to the sow’s underline. However, modern research trials have shown no improvement in growth performance when split suckling was practiced. Recently, a large trial utilizing 22,800 piglets was conducted at a commercial sow farm to compare two split suckling methods, either split suckling based on birth weight or based on birth order, to a control treatment with no split suckling.