Tag & Tell: dealing with broken needles critical for pork industry in Alberta
If you break a needle when injecting a pig of any age, tag it in the ear with the special marker.
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Nurse sows (II)
When using nurse sows (foster sows) whilst making some piglets "go forwards" before the expected time we end up weaning them one week before. This poses certain problems.
New section: Replacement rate simulator
We have developed a new simulator that will help us to calculate the number of gilts to be entered in a farm when its activity starts, when increasing its sow census or when calculating the replacement rate of an already working farm.
Marking the place where the Renco device must be placed
The goal is to increase the agility of the reading process of the body condition of the sows using the Renco device.
Three colours during the gestation. The more visual the easier
The goal is to make the management during the gestation easier using a different colour spray colour each week to mark the tasks carried out with the sows.
Using tie wraps to tie navel cords
Using tie wraps to tie quickly and efficiently navel cords of newborn piglets.
Hyperthermal boxes for hypothermic piglets
This trick allows us to save hypothermic piglets easily, quickly and with surprising results.
How many nurse sows do I need today?
A simple method to facilitate the daily calculation of the nurse sows needed for the correct running of the farrowing quarters in a hyperprolific sows system.
Clinical case: Necrotizing pneumonia in suckling piglets
In a factory farm located in Mexico an increase in the mortality in the farrowing quarters was seen, and this coincides with temperature and relative humidity increases.
Transfers of piglets until the 3rd-4th day after their birth
When there are not enough teats, the strongest piglet always occupies the place of the weak one, that is left without milk to suckle.
Effect of farm size on effectiveness of human resources
The effectiveness of human resources (workforce), measured as weaned per worker, is much higher in big than in small farms.
Handling practices that have a bearing on the conversion index (1/2)
Albeit having similar determinants, the conversion index of the best (25%) and of the least efficient producers (25%) can differ in 0.42 points.
Seasonal effects (temperature and light): analysis and minimization of their consequences
It is a widely documented fact that pig production has seasonal variations mainly focused on a descent in the reproductive efficiency in the gestation phase (difficulty in the coming into oestrus, a higher number of reproductive failures) during the summer and autumn months.
Using flank to flank measurement to predict sow body weight
To accurately predict sow body weight by using their flank to flank measurement in order to determine daily feed intake or accurate medication dose.
Feet First® seminar in Xi’an, China, examines causes, presents solutions for sow lameness
Proactive approach can improve herd performance and boost profitability.
Order when entering the sows from the pregnancy to the farrowing quarters in big farms
In the previous piece of advice we saw that in small farms it could be interesting to maintain a certain order when entering the sows in the farrowing quarters depending on their parturition. Nevertheless, in big farms or in farms that group together many farrowings at the same time we will have to think about the order in another way, because if the farrowing quarters are not very big we will have the same batch of sows housed in several rooms.