Articles - Management

We can predict a sow's production based on the number of piglets born alive at first farrowing. In addition, the best sows' performance will outdo the others' continuously.

Save time, work and water when cleaning the buildings.

The use of milk replacers is helpful, both to increase the number of weaned piglets and to simplify the management of nurse sows.

This trick consists in creating a nest using the crates back corridor.

The week of birth is tattooed on the animals`ears to know their age at all times.

By moving beads stringed in a wire we will record the amount of feed consumed.

We present the first results obtained by cross-matching data from different sources: production / reproduction data with data from feeding machines.

Bearing welfare in mind, which should be the size of the group of animals housed in a pen?

Having a correct lighting is basic for the productivity of the sow and the farm workers, and it can be increased considerably with solutions apart from artificial lighting.

This trick helps to restrain the sows quickly in their cages to draw blood from them.

We move a plastic ring along the water drainpipe, leaving it at a series of pre-established marks.

The goal of this trick is to make a practical, simple and cheap catheter holder.

This article summarizes the main points to beat heat stress in pigs.

A new revolution is about to reach the swine sector, we are talking about new information management.

The objective of supplementing piglets with creep feeds is to reduce the number of under-developed animals during the first days after weaning and, albeit with some differences, it is beneficial for both 21-day and 28-day lactations.

With this aim, micro sprinklers soak periodically the area where we wish the animals to defecate.

This behaviour avoids the submissive animals from having access to water with enough frequency.

Wrap the sow's card in a clear plastic bag and write down the data with a thick marker

This trick consists in using a spring for holding the semen bag during the insemination.

Nothing has more impact on piglet survival that an adequate intake of colostrum.

Mating the stimulated sows eases the sperm transport to the oviduct, where they meet the ova.

This article explains how the massive use of hormones helps synchronize heats and farrowings when workload scheduling, synchronization and production rates stability are priorities.

Build a fence to keep the weaned piglets in a farrowing pen.

A strict schedule allows us to concentrate all the important events, and time periods where more attention/work is required, within the working days.