Page 34 of articles about management
Multi-litter housing: development of piglets and growing and finishing pigs
Creep feeding and lactation length
The objective of supplementing piglets with creep feeds is to reduce the number of under-developed animals during the first days after weaning and, albeit with some differences, it is beneficial for both 21-day and 28-day lactations.
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Pastured Pigs (3 of 4) - Piglet Ear Notching
Farrowing quarters: notes on the card wrapped in a plastic bag
Wrap the sow's card in a clear plastic bag and write down the data with a thick marker
Pastured Pigs (2 of 4) - Piglet Castration
Data, hormones and holidays (2/2)
This article explains how the massive use of hormones helps synchronize heats and farrowings when workload scheduling, synchronization and production rates stability are priorities.
Early piglet weaning in their own farrowing pen
Build a fence to keep the weaned piglets in a farrowing pen.
Data, hormones and holidays (1/2)
A strict schedule allows us to concentrate all the important events, and time periods where more attention/work is required, within the working days.
Relationships among pigs weaned, preweaning survival and weaning weight with the number of piglets after cross fostering
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.
New section: Piglet care
The period from birth to the nursery is the most sensitive one in the life of a pig.
Weaned pigs: they are not all the same. Age and weight dispersion
Differentiating fostered younger piglets from old ones allows proper management.
Control of feeding with a chart wrapped around the water pipe
The goal is to record the sows' feeding level when fed manually.
Watch for the monitoring of farrowings
This watch has three circles: the blue one represents the hours, the green one the liveborn piglets, and the red one the stillborn piglets.