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History and current status of Black Slavonian (Crna slavonska) pig breed, an autochthonous pig breed in the Republic of Croatia.

History and current status of Cinta Senese pig breed, one of the Italian autochthonous pig breeds.

History and current status of Apulo-Calabrese pig breed, one of the Italian autochthonous pig breeds.

What is more important: the farm or genetics?

The history and current status of Bísaro pig, a Portuguese native breed belonging to the Celtic line.

Is it worth to purchase hyperprolific sows for my farm?

The history and current status of Basque pig breed, a South-West of France autochthonous swine breed.

The history and current status of Alentejano pig breed, a Portuguese autochthonous swine breed.

Management of dead semen, data analysis, vaccinations,... These are some examples that we will deal with in the following 6 case studies.

Pig reproduction and summer are not good friends, Heat comes, daylight hours drop, fertility decreases and the vets come across more reproductive pathology than during the rest of the year. Why doing always the same does not always yield the same result?

The morphological differences in the cervical wall and canal between multiparous and nulliparous sows require deep AI devices adapted to the characteristics of the nulliparous.

Although we know that the amount and the quality of nutrients induce direct effects on health, the interaction of nutrition with epigenetic modifications is normally overlooked.

One of the indices that is generating much interest is the one referred to the number of weaned piglets per sow lifetime (WSL). This index refers to the total number of piglets that a sow has weaned throughout its productive life.

A farrow-to-finish farm went from 10% to 50% of returns to oestrus, and almost 90% of them were regular.

The key lies in gilt management ...

Occasionally, breeders end up using semen with a suboptimal fertilizing ability due to inadequate storage conditions.