Tip: How to make an incubator cart for piglets
We can place the weakest piglets from each litter to dry out and warm up in this incubator while we tend to the next sows.
Articles - Management
The Signs of farrowing: Physiology and sow behaviour
Understanding the farrowing process and recognizing the signs for the different stages of birth, help us to develop management plans to improve the likelihood for live born piglets.
Ideal biosecurity for pig farms (2/2)
Preventing the entry and spread of diseases should be an objective on any swine farm, so adequately designing biosecurity aspects is key. In this article, we continue to discuss biosecurity measures with two experts: Lara Ruiz and José Casanovas.
Basic needs of the growing pig
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.
Cross fostering and nurse sows (I): How to handle hyperprolific sows
Here are three basic rules for deciding if and when to do cross fostering and use nurse sows.
Video about split suckling: The importance of the first few hours
To ensure that each piglet intakes enough colostrum and to help the smallest piglets get it, split suckling should be used.
Three colours during the gestation. The more visual the easier
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.
Tips for heat detection
In the first part of this article series we addressed how to correctly stimulate oestrus. In this article we continue talking with swine reproduction specialist, Javier Gil Pascual, focusing on heat detection.
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What is the best age for weaning piglets? (1/3)
With this article we begin the publication of a series of three unpublished articles by José Barceló for pig333.com on the age at weaning.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.
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Water medication calculator
Simulator that calculates the amount of drug to add to the water when using a flow dispenser.