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If we decide to use foster sows to wean the "extra" piglets farrowed by hyper-prolific sows, we must decide which system is best suited to our farm and our management conditions.

Single animal treatment or batch medication? in any case, the treatment and choice of medication should be done based on resistance testing.

Neonatal mineral and vitamin supplementation have a huge impact on bone development and body composition via the regulation of mesenchymal stem cells and satellite cell programing.

Use the probe of an intrauterine AI catheter to provide colostrum.

Enric Marco sums up the essential points to control post-weaning diarrhoea in our farm.

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

We got a call to visit a fattening farm where 7-week-old piglets presented meningitis and diarrhoea after weaning, with a mortality rate of 5% three weeks after weaning.

The immunomodulatory effect —particularly anti-inflammatory— of phytogenic products added to the diet seems to play a crucial role in addressing intestinal clinical pictures in pigs.

Various strategies are discussed: offering up to 3 different types of feed, budget feeding, density of piglets per feeder space, ...

Neonatal mortality does not only depend on the design of the farrowing crate, but also on genetic and management factors, as well as litter size, especially with the increased use of hyper-prolific dam lines.

Adding organic iron in piglets drinking water during lactation may be an alternative to parenteral administration of inorganic iron.

Weaning triggers a series of changes leading to the decrease of feed intake and the deterioration of the intestinal architecture which finally results in infection, diarrhoea and low performance.

Although dispersion in the farrowing quarters is decisive in the final dispersion, we can take steps to correct some of this dispersion in the nursery.

Finding alternatives to reduce the number of nurse sows by maximising the number of suckling piglets per sow.

Due to the fact that no known enteropathogen was found in clinically relevant amounts, importance of massive Blastocystis sp. infestation was counted as significant in this case.

We can predict a sow's production based on the number of piglets born alive at first farrowing. In addition, the best sows' performance will outdo the others' continuously.