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Column: Parity segregation - the costs

"Done correctly, parity segregation looks to carry around a 15% extra cost."
  Keywords: parity, segregation, sows, gilts, pregnancy, cost of production Source: Pig Progress magazine Volume 24 No. 21   Click on the pdf link below to read the... read more »

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Column: parity segregation

It isn't surprising that the textbooks don't mention a word of this. While it has been discussed by academics for at least three years, it is only within the last 12 months that attention has been drawn to the concept, almost exclusively in the USA by articles and at technical meetings. read more >

What the textbooks don't tell you about... Gilt breeding strategy, who's right?

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ESF training for gilts

In Denmark experiences from ten herds concerning training of young sows in electronic sow feeding systems were gathered. read more >

What the textbooks don't tell you about... Stimulating gilts.

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