Ten years ago, 70% of the pre-weaning mortality occurred on the first day of life...
With the current prolific sows, the losses are more equally distributed between the age groups, and the losses between day 2 and 7 have doubled and equal those during the day of birth (data by PigCHAMP Pro Europa 2017).
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