The role of your farm on the sows' reproductive potential (2/2)
What is more important: the farm or genetics?
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The role of your farm on the sows' reproductive potential (1/2)
Is it worth to purchase hyperprolific sows for my farm?
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Are all non-viable piglets, really not viable?
There are casualties in the farrowing unit due to poor colostrum intake but, how many are there really? Are they just being classified as non-viable piglets?
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How can farm production be increased with the use of Supersows?
The key lies in gilt management ...
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Clinical case: Increase of returns: Management or PRRS?
Returns increase in a PRRS-positive farm in the middle of a census increase plus a change of management in the batch farrowing system, from 3 weeks to 1.
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The importance of lighting in your farm
One of the main tools to encourage the installation of extra lighting in the mating area is the data analysis, and more specifically the weaning-to-service interval.
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24-Mar-2018jungjoon26Thank you for good information.
Temporary nurse sows: How to increase the number of teats on batch farrowing systems
The article explains how to manage nurse sows in 3-week batch farrowing systems with a practical example.
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"Ghost sows" and the other 8 most frequent errors when processing data (2/2)
This second part deals with the problems caused by not recording properly the cause of abortions, sows and piglets deaths, nurse sows and hormonal treatments.
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15-Nov-2016Allan Schinckel good article - mistakes that are easily done - and impact the records.
"Ghost sows" and the other 8 most frequent errors when processing data (1/2)
This first part deals with backward and impossible data, i.e. the sows that are no longer in the farm but still appear both in the management softwatre and the 100% delivery rates in gilts.
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Lameness blindness (2/2)
The number of sows that suffer some kind of leg injury is much higher than is apparent, and even more so in second farrowings.
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Lameness blindness (1/2)
Apparently, lameness problems amount to just 5% of the causes for sending pigs to slaughter...
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What is the best age for the first service? Well, it depends
The month of the sow's birth affects the number of piglets born alive in the first farrowing.
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27-Feb-2016ZOOTECHDear Bvendelboe, Allow me to disagree with you, Genetics is a very delicate issue, 16 piglets is not standard for any genetic. Your choice of genetics, maybe depends on the type of pigs you produce, so it's not "correct" to conclude. Back to our topic; It's a rule that gilts are not served before 270 days of age, and the more we approach the 300 days deadline the better parity performance you get, meaning a better ROI per gilt properly selected & served.
At long last, we can now predict a sow's performance from her first farrowing
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.
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03-Aug-2018gaofrancisThis article is an eye opener to me since i have not considered the issue of supersows on my farm , thanks for the insight.
Data, hormones and holidays (2/2)
This article explains how the massive use of hormones helps synchronize heats and farrowings when workload scheduling, synchronization and production rates stability are priorities.
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Data, hormones and holidays (1/2)
A strict schedule allows us to concentrate all the important events, and time periods where more attention/work is required, within the working days.
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Are sows asking for the pig334? (2/2)
Thanks to the combination of a decrease in the number of stillborn and an almost 30% decrease of preweaning mortality (down to 10.2%), the ultimate goal is finally achieved: to wean an additional piglet per sow.
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30-Apr-2015GhenadieLow birth weight and high stillborn percentage are common for early induced farrowing. Most of our farms have weekly batches. Some of them are using prostaglandin on day 116 in sows with no signs of farrowing to reduce the distribution of farrowing in the same batch. Some of our farms are just switching not farrowed late sows with farrowed ones in the next room to close the batch earlier. This way we reduce intervention and cost for hormones and following a more natural way. Last 10 years the gestation length increased with about 1 day. In our farms the average gestation length is 116,3-116,5 days.
