Articles - Management

Bearing welfare in mind, which should be the size of the group of animals housed in a pen?

Having a correct lighting is basic for the productivity of the sow and the farm workers, and it can be increased considerably with solutions apart from artificial lighting.

This trick helps to restrain the sows quickly in their cages to draw blood from them.

We move a plastic ring along the water drainpipe, leaving it at a series of pre-established marks.

The goal of this trick is to make a practical, simple and cheap catheter holder.

This article summarizes the main points to beat heat stress in pigs.

A new revolution is about to reach the swine sector, we are talking about new information management.

The objective of supplementing piglets with creep feeds is to reduce the number of under-developed animals during the first days after weaning and, albeit with some differences, it is beneficial for both 21-day and 28-day lactations.

With this aim, micro sprinklers soak periodically the area where we wish the animals to defecate.

This behaviour avoids the submissive animals from having access to water with enough frequency.

Wrap the sow's card in a clear plastic bag and write down the data with a thick marker

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

Nothing has more impact on piglet survival that an adequate intake of colostrum.

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

This article explains how the massive use of hormones helps synchronize heats and farrowings when workload scheduling, synchronization and production rates stability are priorities.

Build a fence to keep the weaned piglets in a farrowing pen.

A strict schedule allows us to concentrate all the important events, and time periods where more attention/work is required, within the working days.

Write down events or treatments on the windows as if they were a blackboard.

Many swine production units in North America have incorporated fumigation rooms into their barn design.

Differentiating fostered younger piglets from old ones allows proper management.

Growth curves as a tool to help manage weight variability among pigs.

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

This watch has three circles: the blue one represents the hours, the green one the liveborn piglets, and the red one the stillborn piglets.

The goal is to lose as little time as possible when looking for someone on the farm.