How number of pigs per feeder hole and group size affect nursery pig performance
How does the number of pigs per feeder hole and the group size influence growth performance and ear and tail lesions?
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Use this tool to diagnose problems with the feed conversion ratio. Click on the flowchart or on the buttons within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
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Compare production data, calculate the number of sow, nursery, and finishing spaces, and visualize your tasks on the work schedule by type of BMS.
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Use this tool to find out why your farrowing rate is less than ideal. Click on the flowchart or on the buttons found within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
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Compare production data, calculate the number of sow, nursery, and finishing spaces, and visualize your tasks on the work schedule by type of BMS.
Tool that allows you to calculate the replacement rate in your farm
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
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Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Use this tool to explore which slurry management strategy best fits your situation. Click on the flow chart or on the buttons within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
How does the number of pigs per feeder hole and the group size influence growth performance and ear and tail lesions?
Heat stress is estimated to have a cost in the US pig industry alone of around $300 million.
How does a sow's feed intake in the days prior to farrowing influence piglet birth and weaning weights?
During lactation ensuring the sow consumes enough water is essential, as well as maintaining the water:feed ratio needed to lessen weight loss in the sow and allow a greater daily gain in the piglets.
If my farrowing rate is low, but the returns to estrus, abortions, and culled pregnant sows are all normal, I probably have dead sows...
Data sheet with nutritional value (table comparison) and most recent studies about lard.
Harmonization of short and long-term control of feed intake requires a finely tuned chemosensory system capable of communicating with the brain.
Deviations from the sow's normal consumption pattern during the lactation phase have important production implications.
What nutrients can we increase or decrease in piglet diets during lactation and after weaning to improve immune response and growth?
The three main causes suspected were a low level of vitamin E in sow diets, warfarin poisoning or thrombocytopenia purpura.
Although pigs are not particularly efficient in fermenting dietary fiber, fortunately a number of fiber degrading enzymes are available but it is important that the specific enzymes are matched to the substrate.
What nutrients can be provided to the sow to improve fetal growth, production of milk and colostrum and to modulate the inflammatory response.
How, when and why should feed be increased? what needs to be considered when drawing feed curves? first hand farmer experience from Can Ballau, answers these and other questions
Data sheet with nutritional values (table comparison) and most recent studies about sorghum.
The role of dietary fiber deserves consideration in finding new strategies to alleviate enteric problems, without the use of high zinc oxide levels.
Deficient levels of isoleucine in feed low in crude protein can compromise the growth and gain to feed ratio of piglets.