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How to achieve the 6 kg average daily intake that today's high-producing lactating sows need?

Administer long-acting oxytocin to sows that have started farrowing to milk them more easily.

Sow nutrition research has historically been only about 2% of the swine scientific literature, but new commercial facilities are changing this.

The article explains how to manage nurse sows in 3-week batch farrowing systems with a practical example.

The disadvantage of some boxes is that some piglets are too big and lively and jump off easily.

In the previous paper, the effects of nutrient restriction and consequent catabolism during lactation on sow reproduction yield have been addressed. In the present paper, the efficiency of sows in using energy from feed and body mass is considered.

Use the probe of an intrauterine AI catheter to provide colostrum.

A system for cleaning the bowls in a practical, effective, and quick way without splashing all the farrowing pen or soaking the piglets.

Finding alternatives to reduce the number of nurse sows by maximising the number of suckling piglets per sow.

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

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.

The results show that digestibility of the same diets is indeed higher for gestating and lactating sows than it is for growing pigs.

Making use of the NET energy system for sows to formulate feeds makes it possible to achieve a smooth transition from gestation to lactation diets, which makes the transition period around farrowing easier for the sows.

Piglets have little difficulty finding the feeder but piglets that were not exposed to creep feed during lactation do not recognize the feed as food when weaned.

This system does not provide an improvement in the production data, but a saving in energy costs and a better use of the resources in general.

There is an unusual increase of the returns-to-oestrus at 31-39 days. The majority are due to sows previously negative to the pregnancy ultrasound testing, and the returns-to-oestrus happened before 42 days.