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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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Various applications for a litter conditioner

A litter conditioner, primarily developed to help prevent piglet chilling at birth, has been found by producers to have a number of other useful applications. read more >

Cool sows make piglets grow faster

Research at the Centre for Innovative Pig Farming at Sterksel in the Netherlands in focused at trying to discover economic ways of pig farming. In November last year a research was published, aimed at increasing farrowing sows' feed intake by keeping their pens cool. Both sow and litter benefited. read more >

Relaxed well-being with natural fibre mats

New disposable creep mats show insulating, hygiene and welfare advantages. Piglet mortality in first comparative trials in eastern Germany was reduced by an average of 7%. read more >
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