articles about farrowing room

To identify the keys to success in managing sows in breed and release systems, France's Chamber of Agriculture of the Brittany Region surveyed farmers who implemented this system. The results identified three strategies that producers use the week after weaning.

With current data, we will review the quantitative impact of some of the most relevant factors for sows in the lactation phase.

This year's edition of the Swine Conference in honor of Dr. Allen D. Leman was a special 50th Anniversary event and took place September 21-24 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre Convention Center in Minnesota, USA.

In this third installment, Antonio Palomo summarizes the papers presented on reproduction, nutrition, precision livestock farming, and other aspects of swine production.

We interviewed Jesús Etxart to talk about the latest management recommendations for DanBred sows.

We focus on moving surplus piglets, which forces us to use nurse sows. We explain two ways to do this in a very visual video.

Drying and warming the piglets favors their survival only in farrowing units with moderate or suboptimal temperatures (<25ºC).