Page 37 of articles about management

Lasso the pig with a metallic cable lasso and hold the end of the cable to a pen door or divider.

Perinatal flavour learning has been shown in a wide variety of species including humans, and often results in a preference in the offspring for a flavour that the mother ate often during late gestation and lactation.

If once we have evened out the litters a sow farrows during the late evening, what do we do?

We hold the legs of the piglets together with plastic straps, avoiding that they move apart from each other.

It was developed in USA as a way to improve communication of what needed to be done to improve the chances of success in stabilizing and managing breeding herds.

In pigs there is no other phase in which such a high percentage of losses occur such as in motherhood, in particular in the first days of life. At this stage the determining factor for survival is the rapid consumption of colostrum.

In this second article we are going to analyze the causes of these locomotive system disorders and the treatments to avoid them or to minimize their effects.

Apple juice is the favourite kind of juice for the sows during the training sessions.

Locomotor problems are serious, multi-factorial problems that aren’t well registered on farms, but for the most part are correctable.

To keep the piglets clean and to ensure their wellbeing during the carrying out of different handling procedures or the relocation of animals.