Are your grow/finish barns ready for summer? Let your pigs tell you
Watch your pigs and adjust your equipment to support optimal finishing in summer heat.
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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
Handling young pigs on-farm
Great care is needed particularly when handling young pigs above 6kg/3 weeks of age, to avoid causing lasting damage.
Never miss a heat: Build a better boar bachelor pad
Automated heat detection identifies open sows safely and accurately.
How to know the age of replacement gilts
A simple, economical and practical trick is to identify the replacement gilts with tags of different colours according to the batch they belong to.
PRRSV control using vaccination and optimized management: three case studies
Although the use of vaccination was effective in stabilizing the sows, the results of these case studies emphasized that elimination of PRRSV from the nursery can only be accomplished if vaccination and partial depopulation/ disinfection are supported by strict implementation of all recommended management procedures, including AI/AO.
The Internet of Food & Farm 2020
The Internet of Food & Farm 2020 (IoF2020) project accelerates the uptake of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the European farming and food chains in view of strengthening their competitiveness and sustainability.
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).
Paper in the farrowing quarters: not only for the piglets...
It is easy to see the reaction of the sows (of all of them!) when we supply them with paper. A handful in front of their snout or at the reach of their mouth is enough... oxytocin! It is like giving an injection!
Influence of Wean Age and Disease Challenge on Progeny Lifetime Performance
Dr. Dave Rosero, The Hanor Company, from the 2016 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference, September 17-20, 2016, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Pig castration: will the EU manage to ban pig castration by 2018?
This study provides descriptive information on the practice of piglet castration across 24 European countries.
Does group size have an impact on welfare indicators in fattening pigs?
Body weight and feeding system are determining factors for the welfare status, while group size was not proved to affect the welfare level under the studied conditions of pig fattening.
EU PIG: project created to help improve Europe’s pig industry
EU PIG is a new concept which aims to improve the connection between producers and the latest science, husbandry techniques and technologies from within their industry via fellow producers, academics and advisors connected through thematic and regional platforms.
"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.
Keys to Positively Impact Pig Performance and Care
Keys to Positively Impact Pig Performance and Care - Mark Schwartz, Schwartz Farms, from the 2016 World Pork Expo, June 8 - 10, 2016, Des Moines, IA, USA.
"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.