Weaning-to-service interval: not only non-productive days
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It is not only related to NPDs, but it can also have a greater impact than we first thought.
When productivity decreases, but productive efficiency is maintained...
How do we get good workers? What must we do to keep them? And, mostly, what do I want on my farm and which workers do I need for that?
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.
We hear a lot of talk about optimizing profitability in grow-finish through reducing standard deviation of marketed weights and aiming that tighter weight group at the profit optimal average weight at the time of marketing. It’s a bit like playing darts, you want the darts to be in tight group but it is also necessary to be near the bull’s eye on the target.
Let us see the case of a farm with 5 non-productive days more than the average of the farms with the same profile. Where are these days lost?
The piglets born to primiparous sows show a worse performance during the nursery stage and a twofold risk of dying than the piglets born to multiparous sows.
It's necessary to promote a standardization of the causes of the losses/cullings of the sows. Some rules on which this standardization can be based on are proposed.
The performance decrease suffered by the piglets when weaned is one of the most worrying factors at the pig farms.
In a very near future we will have an enormous amount of data with more speed and ease than ever, and also from very different origins.
In previous articles we have talked about the importance of a good sow replacement, and we have explained methods to calculate an adequate sow replacement rate. In this article we are going to show an example of a bad replacement policy and its consequences throughout time on the productivity of the farm.
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.