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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).

It is easy to see the reaction of the sows (of all of them!) when we supply them with paper. A handful in front of their snout or at the reach of their mouth is enough... oxytocin! It is like giving an injection!

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.

Exposure during acclimatization can be considered the first dose of a vaccine, and pre-farrowing exposure its booster.

An easy solution to store these feeders is to hang them in the corridor of their room. In this way, they do not stand in the way and they can dry well before being used again.

Management factors and environmental conditions are often triggers or predisposing agents, not only to the clinical presentation of the disease, but also its severity and course.

The isolation and acclimation period is not negotiable, it is an investment.

Use a rake to pick placentas more easily.

Gilts are the population most likely to excrete M. hyo during lactation because they will probably have become infected within 200 days prior to their first farrowing.

Meeting the needs of the newly weaned pigs often proves to be difficult in many production settings.

This method works especially well in farms where pens are wide or have unusual dimensions.

A gilt who has compromised limb health on entry to the breeding herd is more vulnerable to early removal as a result of lameness and more vulnerable to the negative production affects associated with it.

This trick consists in creating a nest using the crates back corridor.

The week of birth is tattooed on the animals`ears to know their age at all times.

By moving beads stringed in a wire we will record the amount of feed consumed.