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Having a piglet feeder and a lamp in each farrowing pen avoids the annoying moving of these items between rooms and sometimes between buildings.

In a system with 2.35 farrowings/sow/year, more than 14 piglets born per farrowing, more than 11 weaned piglets/farrowing and around 1% of losses at weaning; what can we do to improve this?

None of the employees on this farm had ever seen TGEv before, but were concerned that is what they were seeing.

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.

In the previous piece of advice we saw that obtaining foster sows by moving piglets "forward" had some disadvantages, which are solved by moving the sows "backwards".

Small piglets with a low viability are a growing problem, and they represent one of the main causes of pre-weaning mortality.

Constipation is one of the factors that are involved in pre weaning piglet mortality.

We achieved it combining the use of two ear tags per sow together with their strategic location in order to avoid losses due to biting.

The goal is to protect the nipples of the future breeding sows during their first days of life.

The piglets that suckle in the rear area of the udder start to eat feed before, and this would explain their better adaptation to the weaning.

Using tie wraps to tie quickly and efficiently navel cords of newborn piglets.

The desired result of the strategic management of replacement gilts at a company level is to minimize the economical losses potentially caused by PRRS.

The litter size of the recent and the last farrowing batches was significantly reduced, and the suckling pigs showed an obvious varying weight, condition and viability.

As of the 3rd-4th day of lactation it is not recommendable anymore to replace small piglets and piglets with poor a growth rate for good piglets, because it is probable that the teat that has to be used has already dried off due to the scarce stimulation received for several consecutive days.

We present a vitality test that is related to the pre-weaning growth and mortality.

This trick allows us to save hypothermic piglets easily, quickly and with surprising results.