Cactus addition to lactating sows’ diet
Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) dietary supplementation may reduce post-farrowing blood glucose avoiding hypophagia in lactating sows.
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Clinical case: Diagnostic darkness: recurring fertility decline in summer
Pig reproduction and summer are not good friends, Heat comes, daylight hours drop, fertility decreases and the vets come across more reproductive pathology than during the rest of the year. Why doing always the same does not always yield the same result?
Weaning-to-service interval: not only non-productive days
It is not only related to NPDs, but it can also have a greater impact than we first thought.
Feeding two different levels in sows during late gestation: effects on reproductive performance and piglet birth weight
Dietary levels of 1.8 and 2.2 kg/d in late gestation do not differ on reproductive and piglet performance.
High environmental temperature around farrowing induced heat stress in crated sows
High temperatures around farrowing (25°C) compromise crated sows' welfare, with a potential negative impact on offspring performance.
Advances in artificial insemination in nulliparous sows
The morphological differences in the cervical wall and canal between multiparous and nulliparous sows require deep AI devices adapted to the characteristics of the nulliparous.
Assessing the performance of lactating sows fed with two different organic diets
Low-protein organic diets can achieve performance standards in lactating sows with small litters but not in large litter.
Feed supplement for sows increases colostrum quality
The Colfapig feed supplement from A-One is a two-star New Product exhibit at Agromek 2018
Do nurse sows and foster litters have impaired animal welfare?
In order to analyse whether nurse sows have more welfare problems than non-nurse sows a cross-sectional study was conducted in 57 sow herds in Denmark.
Maple Leaf Foods builds leadership in animal care
More than 40,000 sows have made the transition to our advanced open sow housing system, and we are on track to transition all sows under our management by the end of 2021.
Piglets weaned per sow lifetime, the hidden index
One of the indices that is generating much interest is the one referred to the number of weaned piglets per sow lifetime (WSL). This index refers to the total number of piglets that a sow has weaned throughout its productive life.
Farrowing fun makes for contented sows
Providing enrichment as straw or lucerne hay two days before farrowing might enhance the affective state of older sows and certainly reduce still birth rate.
Effects of L-proline during early-pregnancy and the sow parity on the birth-weight of piglets
L-proline supplementation during early-pregnancy improves litter size and birth weight in sows with negative energy balance.
Spray-dried porcine plasma in lactation diets
Dietary spray-dried porcine plasma supplementation during lactation may improve litter performance in multiparous sows.
Are all non-viable piglets, really not viable?
There are casualties in the farrowing unit due to poor colostrum intake but, how many are there really? Are they just being classified as non-viable piglets?
A high temperature around farrowing causes stress to the sows
The use of a thermometer or other technologies not so usual such as thermography for diagnosing sensitive situations cheaply, easily and objectively.