Page 9 of articles about sow
Can we apply principles of outdoor farming on an indoor unit? Facilities and management (II/II)
The second part of this article tells us what we can learn from sow's nesting instinct, creep-feed intake, relationship with the operator and groups formation in camping systems for use in our closed farms.
Cactus addition to lactating sows’ diet
Clinical case: Diagnostic darkness: recurring fertility decline in summer
Pig reproduction and summer are not good friends, Heat comes, daylight hours drop, fertility decreases and the vets come across more reproductive pathology than during the rest of the year. Why doing always the same does not always yield the same result?
Weaning-to-service interval: not only non-productive days
It is not only related to NPDs, but it can also have a greater impact than we first thought.
Feeding two different levels in sows during late gestation: effects on reproductive performance and piglet birth weight
High environmental temperature around farrowing induced heat stress in crated sows
Advances in artificial insemination in nulliparous sows
The morphological differences in the cervical wall and canal between multiparous and nulliparous sows require deep AI devices adapted to the characteristics of the nulliparous.
Assessing the performance of lactating sows fed with two different organic diets
Feed supplement for sows increases colostrum quality
The Colfapig feed supplement from A-One is a two-star New Product exhibit at Agromek 2018
Do nurse sows and foster litters have impaired animal welfare?
Maple Leaf Foods builds leadership in animal care
More than 40,000 sows have made the transition to our advanced open sow housing system, and we are on track to transition all sows under our management by the end of 2021.
Piglets weaned per sow lifetime, the hidden index
One of the indices that is generating much interest is the one referred to the number of weaned piglets per sow lifetime (WSL). This index refers to the total number of piglets that a sow has weaned throughout its productive life.
Farrowing fun makes for contented sows
Providing enrichment as straw or lucerne hay two days before farrowing might enhance the affective state of older sows and certainly reduce still birth rate.