For the animals to be comfortable it is important to know their needs. The more needs that we can fulfill the more productive the animal will be.

Here are three basic rules for deciding if and when to do cross fostering and use nurse sows.

To ensure that each piglet intakes enough colostrum and to help the smallest piglets get it, split suckling should be used.

Answers to a series of frequently asked questions regarding vaccine usage and their interaction with the immune system.

This farmer's solution mitigates the effect of wind blowing through the windows, whether we have mechanical or natural ventilation.

The goal is to make the management during the gestation easier using a different colour spray colour each week to mark the tasks carried out with the sows.

Products obtained from insects have a high proportion of crude protein: 40-44% in the case of the black soldier fly larvae, or up to 60% in the case of black fly larvae or in grasshoppers, and even reaching 70% in the case of silkworms.

Main elements that can be found in the digestive environment and how they are involved in gut health.

How, when and why should feed be increased? what needs to be considered when drawing feed curves? first hand farmer experience from Can Ballau, answers these and other questions

ASF spreads mainly through the movement of infected pork and other animal products, as well as live animals, which includes wild boar.

With this article we begin the publication of a series of three unpublished articles by José Barceló for pig333.com on the age at weaning. José gave us the articles a few days before his death. As a way of paying homage to him we have decided to publish them posthumously without any alterations.