Page 13 of articles about sow
Australian sow herd to expand
Never miss a heat: Build a better boar bachelor pad
Automated heat detection identifies open sows safely and accurately.
Human chorionic gonadotrophin in early gestation improves sow fertility during summer
How to know the age of replacement gilts
A simple, economical and practical trick is to identify the replacement gilts with tags of different colours according to the batch they belong to.
Hyperprolific? Yes, but not so much
Sows with more than 16 piglets Total Born (TB) per litter have twice as many stillbirths (SB) as those with 13 to 16 TB litters, and three times more SB than sows farrowing litters smaller than 13 TB.
Paper in the farrowing quarters: not only for the piglets...
It is easy to see the reaction of the sows (of all of them!) when we supply them with paper. A handful in front of their snout or at the reach of their mouth is enough... oxytocin! It is like giving an injection!
Palygorskite dietary supplementation effects on back fat mobilization, leptin levels and oxidative stress in sows
Impact of maternally derived immunity on piglets’ immune response and protection against PCV2 after vaccination at different age
Using first and second parity number born alive information to estimate later reproductive performance in sows
Increasing energy intake during gestation, improvement for primiparous sows
The ABC’s of Gilt Entry: Acclimation, Biosecurity and Convalescence
Clinical case: Increase of returns in summer and low annual prolificacy
The farm reports a problem of low prolificacy (mean annual live births of 11.91) and low fertility in summer, with a marked increase in acyclic returns.
Dietary tryptophan: lysine ratio affects reproductive performance of lactating sows
NPD: An invisible component for herd productivity
We recommend that producers pay more attention to gilts and sows that are at risk of increasing NPD. Situations of increased risk are described.
"Ghost sows" and the other 8 most frequent errors when processing data (2/2)
This second part deals with the problems caused by not recording properly the cause of abortions, sows and piglets deaths, nurse sows and hormonal treatments.