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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.

Exposure during acclimatization can be considered the first dose of a vaccine, and pre-farrowing exposure its booster.

An easy solution to store these feeders is to hang them in the corridor of their room. In this way, they do not stand in the way and they can dry well before being used again.

Management factors and environmental conditions are often triggers or predisposing agents, not only to the clinical presentation of the disease, but also its severity and course.

The isolation and acclimation period is not negotiable, it is an investment.

Use a rake to pick placentas more easily.

Gilts are the population most likely to excrete M. hyo during lactation because they will probably have become infected within 200 days prior to their first farrowing.

Meeting the needs of the newly weaned pigs often proves to be difficult in many production settings.

This method works especially well in farms where pens are wide or have unusual dimensions.

A gilt who has compromised limb health on entry to the breeding herd is more vulnerable to early removal as a result of lameness and more vulnerable to the negative production affects associated with it.

This trick consists in creating a nest using the crates back corridor.

The week of birth is tattooed on the animals`ears to know their age at all times.

By moving beads stringed in a wire we will record the amount of feed consumed.

We present the first results obtained by cross-matching data from different sources: production / reproduction data with data from feeding machines.

This trick helps to restrain the sows quickly in their cages to draw blood from them.

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.