{"id":16611,"date":"2014-06-13T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=16611"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:31:41","slug":"impact-of-methods-of-synchronizing-gilt-breeding-on-sow-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/impact-of-methods-of-synchronizing-gilt-breeding-on-sow-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of Methods of Synchronizing Gilt Breeding on Sow Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The method and results for a project looking at the effect of hormone induction of puberty in gilts on longevity and performance. Half of the gilts were injected with PG600\u00ae at 153 days of age, and half were left as controls. Gilts were bred, weaned, and some were reassigned as nurse sows. After 1 or 2 weanings, sows were randomly assigned for another treatment of PG600\u00ae. The results show the first treatment group of\u00a0PG600\u00ae had larger litters, but the same number weaned between groups. PG600\u00ae increased the percent of sows bred within 8 days of weaning from 66% to 85%.\u00a0As well, nurse sows had larger next litters, and an increased percent bred within 8 days of the second weaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The method and results for a project looking at the effect of hormone induction of puberty in gilts on longevity and performance. Half of the gilts were injected with PG600\u00ae at 153 days of age, and half were left as controls. Gilts were bred, weaned, and some were reassigned as nurse sows. After 1 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16613,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611\/revisions\/16613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}