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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.
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A rescue package for piglets in need

Gone are the days where a milk replacer was reached for as an emergency. Now, with litter sizes on the increase, milk replacers and their feeding systems are becoming part of everyday management on progressive sow units. However, do they give good results and do they call for more labour? read more >

The Maschhoffs: Progressive farming, family style

The Maschhoffs is the United States’ third largest swine producer, harvesting 3.5 million slaughter pigs and 0.5 million feeder pigs per year – and still growing. Keen to learn more about the family business, Pig Progress travelled to Illinois. read more >

What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Crushing

Reading a Nadis Health Bulletin about the subject of crushing, recently issued by BPEX in the UK, encouraged me to look through the pig textbooks on my shelves to see what they said about it. After all, Nadis reported that of losses to weaning reaching 12.45% on some farms, 6.66% were due to crushing. That caught my attention straightaway. read more >

Water supply crucial when purchasing nipple drinkers

Water is of great importance in the diet of animals. In addition to financial consequences for the pig farmer, water wastage negatively influences animal performance. Optimal attention, therefore, must be given to the nipple watersupply. read more >

Piglets get VIP treatment in Italy

Welfare issues concerning pigs are high on the agenda in northern Europe but generally not of great concern the further south of the continent. However, Italian producer Giuseppe Papetti has embraced group housing of dry sows, a loose farrowing system and straw bedding for weaners. read more >
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