I didn’t change anything. Why did my productivity go down?
When productivity decreases, but productive efficiency is maintained...
When productivity decreases, but productive efficiency is maintained...
Traditional culling policies have a threshold number of farrowings after which sows are culled —after weaning. But, what would happen if this policy were to be modified to actually consider the performance of each sow?
The owner contacted us because he has seen a reduction in performance in recent months, although no decline has been identified in any particular parameter. He says that, overall, “the sows are doing worse".
Minimizing sow losses in the initial cycles has three positive effects for the economic efficiency of the farm
Sows with more than 16 piglets Total Born (TB) per litter have twice as many stillbirths (SB) as those with 13 to 16 TB litters, and three times more SB than sows farrowing litters smaller than 13 TB.
This article discusses 4-week batch farrowing (4WBF), very common in small farms (250 sows) in some other countries, including France. Analysis will be based on a comparison with 3-week batch farrowing (3WBF).
This second part deals with the problems caused by not recording properly the cause of abortions, sows and piglets deaths, nurse sows and hormonal treatments.
This first part deals with backward and impossible data, i.e. the sows that are no longer in the farm but still appear both in the management softwatre and the 100% delivery rates in gilts.
The number of sows that suffer some kind of leg injury is much higher than is apparent, and even more so in second farrowings.
Apparently, lameness problems amount to just 5% of the causes for sending pigs to slaughter...
The month of the sow's birth affects the number of piglets born alive in the first farrowing.
We can predict a sow's production based on the number of piglets born alive at first farrowing. In addition, the best sows' performance will outdo the others' continuously.
We present the first results obtained by cross-matching data from different sources: production / reproduction data with data from feeding machines.
A new revolution is about to reach the swine sector, we are talking about new information management.
This article explains how the massive use of hormones helps synchronize heats and farrowings when workload scheduling, synchronization and production rates stability are priorities.
A strict schedule allows us to concentrate all the important events, and time periods where more attention/work is required, within the working days.
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