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How routines can help to get to 32 piglets/sow/year

Danish Karina Mikkelsen has very steady routines in her farrowing unit leading to excellent breeding figures. She informed the audience at the latest Congress for Pig Producers (Svinekongres) in Herning, Denmark, held in October 2011. Her message: If a producer looks well after the sows, the sows will take good care of their piglets.
Karina Mikkelsen at work on the farm near Odense.     Karina Mikkelsen is responsible for the... read more »

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What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Hot weather

Summer’s here in the Northern hemisphere, and with it those listless sows and languid gilts, reduced appetite, stuffy, overhot farrowing houses, sunburn for the outdoor pigs – and irritable stockpeople trying to keep pace with it all! Stimulated by some excellent and mainly new advice from PIC recently, I realised that the pig textbooks I have (and I have most of them) are not all that ‘hot’ on warm weather advice, so perhaps a few updating remarks may be useful. read more >

The Two-Tonne Sow: Britain’s aim to reacht he EU level

An ambitious project to dramatically increase the production of pig meat is rapidly taking shape in Britain, where a growing number of producers are climbing aboard what has been loosely defined as the ‘Two-Tonne Sow’, or 2TS. read more >

Always looking ahead to the next litter

Feeding for better reproduction starts immediately after farrowing. Theory and practice show that if lactating sows reach a high feed intake with feed rich in starch, the number of piglets born at the next cycle is improved. read more >

How farrowing impacts a sow's digestive transit

The effect of farrowing on the sow's digestive tract has often been underestimated. Obstipation around peripartum does have negative side-effects. Optimising diet formulation by taking into account the interactions between yeasts and the diet might help to reduce problems. read more >

Combining expertise, lifting performance with arginine

In a truly international, interdisciplinary research and marketing effort involving a variety of participants - nutritionists, biologists, government and feed corporations – dietary supplements have emerged to lift the performance of gestating and lactating swine to amazing levels. read more >
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