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This trick explains how to obtain foster sows for the adoptions.

In the last 4 batches of weaned piglets, the farmer saw around 3% of anorexic and lethargic piglets. All the treatments he tried failed (amoxicillin or florfenicol injections), and finally the piglets died.

Achieving a high prolificacy and knowing how to take advantage of it (transform it into weaned piglets) is vital for the productivity of a sow farm.

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.

The use of these nests help create two well-differentiated areas: a warmer one for the piglets and a cooler one for the sows.

The aim is to avoid dehydration during the first days after weaning to improve feed intake.

There are many home-made options that allow us to carry out this so important technique on our farms.

Having a piglet feeder and a lamp in each farrowing pen avoids the annoying moving of these items between rooms and sometimes between buildings.

In a system with 2.35 farrowings/sow/year, more than 14 piglets born per farrowing, more than 11 weaned piglets/farrowing and around 1% of losses at weaning; what can we do to improve this?

None of the employees on this farm had ever seen TGEv before, but were concerned that is what they were seeing.

The piglets born to primiparous sows show a worse performance during the nursery stage and a twofold risk of dying than the piglets born to multiparous sows.

In the previous piece of advice we saw that obtaining foster sows by moving piglets "forward" had some disadvantages, which are solved by moving the sows "backwards".

Small piglets with a low viability are a growing problem, and they represent one of the main causes of pre-weaning mortality.

Constipation is one of the factors that are involved in pre weaning piglet mortality.

We achieved it combining the use of two ear tags per sow together with their strategic location in order to avoid losses due to biting.

The goal is to protect the nipples of the future breeding sows during their first days of life.