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.
María Aparicio Arnay
ADA, Animal Data Analytics - Directora de Nosia - Spain Author
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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? (1/2)
As you probably know, the name pig333 web comes from the length of the sow's gestation, which is "3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days". This paper proposes the necessity to review the length of gestation on our farm.
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Non-productive days (2/2): €16,000 hidden in the gestation
After checking that our farm loses days in the servicing of the gilts, the detection of empty sows housed in yards and the culling (sending of the sows to the abattoir), we propose a package of measures…
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Non-productive days (1/2): €16,000 hidden in gestation
Let us see the case of a farm with 5 non-productive days more than the average of the farms with the same profile. Where are these days lost?
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Sow overmanagement consequences (2/2)
The results reveal that the stress that the sows due to excessive interventions around the moment of the farrowing causes a clear increase in the pre-weaning mortality.
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Sow overmanagement consequences (1/2)
We saw aggressiveness in the sows, and we suspected that it could have been caused by the handling around the moment of the farrowing. We decided to register and analyze the data relative to the handling in order to confirm our suspicions.
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26-Mar-2014mester.karoly_1The question is not so simple. Increase the fermentable fiber is a good idea, but it does not resolve the issue.
The sow's head two interesting symptom. The eye conjunctiva inflammation. The sow mouth on the edge of white foam. In which I am not sure, but I see the picture of the sow snout skin tissue necrosis.
This causes additional problems. I think that the sow does not compensate, combo, acidosis, metabolitikus and respiratory system eye visible symptom. The other big problem with the release of ammonia poisoning, a symptom of the frothing at the mouth.
To compensate for the acidosis enters the renal route, this is known as escaping the glutamine → 2 HCO3- + 2 NH+ 4. The kidneys of the ammonium ions should choose, but I do not know. At this point, the Organization would reach the goal of having a glutamine residue, namely the two breaks down to HCO3-ion which would compensate the acidosis. Further it is possible to process the liver detoxication function where the urea cycle in the detoxication of ammonia. The liver does not go in the urea cycle,
Two reasons
1. small number of intact liver parenchyma cells in the liver.
2. lysine-arginine antagonism of the urea cycle, unable to function.
This causes the ammonia poisoning. Due to the unfortunate sow liver and kidney damage.
The acidosis can develop kidney problems, liver problems due to ketosis is the sow it causes a huge acid load the animal. The respiratory acidosis due to kidney failure can develop.
Renal insufficiency → blood pressure increase → hypertrophic heart in work → blood stasis in the pulmonary circulation → pulmonary oedema → reduced the effectiveness of respiration, carbon dioxide exhalation → respiratory acidosis.
Ammonia poisoning symptom:
Ammonia is added to the liquor, the displacement of the ammonia paralyses muscle motor cells. Therefore, you can not swallow the sow, so it builds up in the saliva foam in the mouth. The nervous excitement of ammonia poisoning is caused by the State. Muscle tremors, gnash one’s teeth, panic condition.
Notice the pregnant sows is ammonia poisoning.
Why is there such a high mortality in the piglets ?
1. Prenatal asphyxia can also be due to prenatal. In this case, the hogs are special acidosis in utero. At this point the piglets the blood pH from 6.0 to pH also may be affected. Due to the vitality of these pigs have no life.
2. the characteristic of the meconium birth of a pig?
3. you must have surfactant deficient piglets.
4. you see mulberry heart disease neonatal piglets?
5. do you have the villous atrophy in piglets?
Wrong thinking.
There is no shortage of animals symptom, not the problem that we do not do something in the feed mixture.
Solving the problem is that some of the material to be removed from the feed mixture!
Wisely.
This is a serious nutrition physiological causes. I feel sorry for the animals, and the economic damage is enormous.
I have been doing for years. There are a lot of practical experience.
It is not easy, but it can be removed.
Unfortunately my English is not good. Excuse Me.
Sincerely, Mester Károly, agricultural engineer, Hungary,
30-years pig feeding experience.
The sow's head two interesting symptom. The eye conjunctiva inflammation. The sow mouth on the edge of white foam. In which I am not sure, but I see the picture of the sow snout skin tissue necrosis.
This causes additional problems. I think that the sow does not compensate, combo, acidosis, metabolitikus and respiratory system eye visible symptom. The other big problem with the release of ammonia poisoning, a symptom of the frothing at the mouth.
To compensate for the acidosis enters the renal route, this is known as escaping the glutamine → 2 HCO3- + 2 NH+ 4. The kidneys of the ammonium ions should choose, but I do not know. At this point, the Organization would reach the goal of having a glutamine residue, namely the two breaks down to HCO3-ion which would compensate the acidosis. Further it is possible to process the liver detoxication function where the urea cycle in the detoxication of ammonia. The liver does not go in the urea cycle,
Two reasons
1. small number of intact liver parenchyma cells in the liver.
2. lysine-arginine antagonism of the urea cycle, unable to function.
This causes the ammonia poisoning. Due to the unfortunate sow liver and kidney damage.
The acidosis can develop kidney problems, liver problems due to ketosis is the sow it causes a huge acid load the animal. The respiratory acidosis due to kidney failure can develop.
Renal insufficiency → blood pressure increase → hypertrophic heart in work → blood stasis in the pulmonary circulation → pulmonary oedema → reduced the effectiveness of respiration, carbon dioxide exhalation → respiratory acidosis.
Ammonia poisoning symptom:
Ammonia is added to the liquor, the displacement of the ammonia paralyses muscle motor cells. Therefore, you can not swallow the sow, so it builds up in the saliva foam in the mouth. The nervous excitement of ammonia poisoning is caused by the State. Muscle tremors, gnash one’s teeth, panic condition.
Notice the pregnant sows is ammonia poisoning.
Why is there such a high mortality in the piglets ?
1. Prenatal asphyxia can also be due to prenatal. In this case, the hogs are special acidosis in utero. At this point the piglets the blood pH from 6.0 to pH also may be affected. Due to the vitality of these pigs have no life.
2. the characteristic of the meconium birth of a pig?
3. you must have surfactant deficient piglets.
4. you see mulberry heart disease neonatal piglets?
5. do you have the villous atrophy in piglets?
Wrong thinking.
There is no shortage of animals symptom, not the problem that we do not do something in the feed mixture.
Solving the problem is that some of the material to be removed from the feed mixture!
Wisely.
This is a serious nutrition physiological causes. I feel sorry for the animals, and the economic damage is enormous.
I have been doing for years. There are a lot of practical experience.
It is not easy, but it can be removed.
Unfortunately my English is not good. Excuse Me.
Sincerely, Mester Károly, agricultural engineer, Hungary,
30-years pig feeding experience.
Farrowing interval: how does it affect productivity?
The farrowing interval is one of the production parameters more commonly used as an indicator of the production efficiency of a farm.
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09-Apr-2015Theresa MontshoThank you very much for the invaluable information a lot of producers do not know how to calculate the farrowing index. It is also very important to show the working of lost days or non productive days as it also has an influence in the farrowing index and very important in reproductive effeciency.Thank you
Weaning-to-service interval: what affects it and how to control it
Which factors affect the WTSI? Among the factors with a biggest influence we have: inadequate intake during lactation, season of the year, and length of the lactation.
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09-May-2015binhI have 418 sows now, I want to increase to 900 sows from now to end of this year, but I don't know how to calculate the increase plan. I wish to support from pig333.com
Production paces: how to keep the flows of animals constant
In order to keep the population of the different kinds of animals constant, the flows of pigs must be constant. This is, we must keep the production pace of the farm.
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27-Oct-2017LadiThe number of female pig to fall pregnant, divided by the number of female pigs mated
Causes of the losses/cullings of the sows: a tower of Babel (II)
It's necessary to promote a standardization of the causes of the losses/cullings of the sows. Some rules on which this standardization can be based on are proposed.
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Sow losses/cullings: a Tower of Babel (I)
The registration of the sow losses/cullings in the management computer programs is normally something easy, but it is not always given the importance that it really has so, sometimes, the registration is incomplete, with wrong dates and without writing down the cause of the loss/culling. Nevertheless, its correct registration and its later analysis can give us very useful information for the correct technical-financial management of the farm.
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Competitive advantages with the use of information (II) – Another step towards the real-time management of the swine sector?
In a very near future we will have an enormous amount of data with more speed and ease than ever, and also from very different origins.
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Competitive advantages with the use of information (I). How do the companies use it?
Only the 17% of the companies use more than the 75% of the collected information and only the 27% of them think that they use it better than their competitors.
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02-Oct-2015Mome Nokubonga Competitive advantage of piggery
What do I do with this census?
In previous articles we have talked about the importance of a good sow replacement, and we have explained methods to calculate an adequate sow replacement rate. In this article we are going to show an example of a bad replacement policy and its consequences throughout time on the productivity of the farm.
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21-Apr-2014Carlos PiñeiroDear Sir: those charts are from PigCHAMP software and we can generate it importing from any software in the market just importing data smoothly. let me know if you need further help, I will be very pleased carlos.pineiro@pigchamp-pro.com
I'm missing weaned piglets/sow: Why?
Normally, when we ask a farmer which is their average number of weaned piglets per sow they normally know this parameter, because its calculation is easy, nevertheless...
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