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The goal is to know the production stage of gestating sows in a quick and visual way.

Using the year the sows enter in production for the sow's identification number.

The trick consists in selecting the appropriate foster sows and marking them on the back with the maximum number of pigs that they can take care of.

After checking that our farm loses days in the servicing of the gilts, the detection of empty sows housed in yards and the culling (sending of the sows to the abattoir), we propose a package of measures…

It' is not as simple as the larger pigs have better survivability...

There are different systems for carrying out this water delivery. Probably, the most common one is with a hose, but sometimes, the sows' troughs are not facing the corridor but the wall.

This trick explains how to obtain foster sows for the adoptions.

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?

This system does not provide an improvement in the production data, but a saving in energy costs and a better use of the resources in general.

The results reveal that the stress that the sows due to excessive interventions around the moment of the farrowing causes a clear increase in the pre-weaning mortality.

It is very important that all the staff on the farm can know quickly what is going on in the farrowing quarters, because in this way everybody will be able to carry out the daily duties in this area.

Different systems allow the sows to eat several times a day. In some of them we are the ones who decide, in other ones it is the sows.

We saw aggressiveness in the sows, and we suspected that it could have been caused by the handling around the moment of the farrowing. We decided to register and analyze the data relative to the handling in order to confirm our suspicions.

The procedure is simple, quick and well tolerated by the recipient sows.

The use of two different feeds for the sows in the farrowing quarters is not always easy at a logistical level.