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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I didn’t change anything. Why did my productivity go down?
When productivity decreases, but productive efficiency is maintained...
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The ideal sow herd structure does not have a triangular shape any more
Traditional culling policies have a threshold number of farrowings after which sows are culled —after weaning. But, what would happen if this policy were to be modified to actually consider the performance of each sow?
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08-Dec-2017Marcelo PeterI love these article, i was upset with my veterinary officer who failed to offer me such an advice when i had challenges of feeds, mastitis and too many sows on the farm.
I just have all my answers well articulated here.
Thanks to these teams for shining this bright lights.
I just have all my answers well articulated here.
Thanks to these teams for shining this bright lights.
How to reduce the replacement rate and have a better parity distribution
Minimizing sow losses in the initial cycles has three positive effects for the economic efficiency of the farm
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Hyperprolific? Yes, but not so much
Sows with more than 16 piglets Total Born (TB) per litter have twice as many stillbirths (SB) as those with 13 to 16 TB litters, and three times more SB than sows farrowing litters smaller than 13 TB.
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4 week batch farrowing: another option for small farms
This article discusses 4-week batch farrowing (4WBF), very common in small farms (250 sows) in some other countries, including France. Analysis will be based on a comparison with 3-week batch farrowing (3WBF).
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11-Nov-2017houxiaoshe飞非常好，我想知道，对于返情的母猪，您是如何使用激素控制的？时间的时间、剂量、及停药日期？
"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-2016tomi-olatundeDear 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.
The Internet of (swine) Things II
We present the first results obtained by cross-matching data from different sources: production / reproduction data with data from feeding machines.
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The Internet of (swine) Things
A new revolution is about to reach the swine sector, we are talking about new information management.
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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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