Page 34 of articles about 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.

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.

Although piglet birth weight is the most influential factor affecting piglet survival other behavioral factors such as vitality and vigor of piglets at birth contribute to the overall likelihood of the offspring surviving.

Differentiating fostered younger piglets from old ones allows proper management.

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.

Today, nearly all genetic suppliers of replacement breeding stock in North America are free of M.hyo.

Wrap the sow's card in a transparent plastic bag and write down on it the information with a thick marker.

Managing the pig’s environment with the goal of heat removal is an increasing need, especially when pens are more crowded.

20 years ago we inseminated gilts when too small, then we inseminated them when too heavy, and now we are returning to an intermediate weight.

Thanks to the combination of a decrease in the number of stillborn and an almost 30% decrease of preweaning mortality (down to 10.2%), the ultimate goal is finally achieved: to wean an additional piglet per sow.