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Understanding potential causes of lameness can help reduce the levels of lameness in the breeding herd and thus improve farm productivity and sow welfare.

This trick consists in using a spring for holding the semen bag during the insemination.

Mating the stimulated sows eases the sperm transport to the oviduct, where they meet the ova.

The results show that digestibility of the same diets is indeed higher for gestating and lactating sows than it is for growing pigs.

Making use of the NET energy system for sows to formulate feeds makes it possible to achieve a smooth transition from gestation to lactation diets, which makes the transition period around farrowing easier for the sows.

Sows inseminated with encapsulated semen had more sperm cells concentration at the site of fertilization.

The goal is to record the sows' feeding level when fed manually.

Wrap the sow's card in a transparent plastic bag and write down on it the information with a thick marker.

As you probably know, the name pig333 web comes from the length of the sow's gestation, which is "3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days". This paper proposes the necessity to review the length of gestation on our farm.

The goal is to know the production stage of gestating sows in a quick and visual way.

Using the year the sows enter in production for the sow's identification number.

The trick consists in selecting the appropriate foster sows and marking them on the back with the maximum number of pigs that they can take care of.

After checking that our farm loses days in the servicing of the gilts, the detection of empty sows housed in yards and the culling (sending of the sows to the abattoir), we propose a package of measures…

It' is not as simple as the larger pigs have better survivability...

There are different systems for carrying out this water delivery. Probably, the most common one is with a hose, but sometimes, the sows' troughs are not facing the corridor but the wall.

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