{"id":19321,"date":"2017-05-11T14:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19321"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:11:19","slug":"practical-labour-tips-to-improve-piglet-survivability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/practical-labour-tips-to-improve-piglet-survivability\/","title":{"rendered":"PRACTICAL LABOUR TIPS TO IMPROVE PIGLET SURVIVABILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate goal of a farrowing facility management system is to produce a high number\u00a0of mature and healthy weaned piglets. The older and bigger the piglet is at weaning, the\u00a0higher the gain, the better the feed efficiency and the lower the cost up to slaughter.\u00a0Management around the farrowing process therefore has a great impact over the entire life\u00a0of the pig.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00c9NARD APPROACH<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose the good sows\n<ul>\n<li>Genetic\u00a0choice has a major impact on total number born but also milking ability, mothering\u00a0temperament and weight of piglets at birth.<\/li>\n<li>Number of functional teats is highly important.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Keep your sows in good body condition and feed them well.\n<ul>\n<li>Body condition at farrowing has an important impact on milk production and feed intake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Respect the natural gestation time for sows<\/li>\n<li>Give the research to your people and let them improve their practices<\/li>\n<li>Before farrowing\n<ul>\n<li>Remove feces behind the sows continuously before and during farrowing.<\/li>\n<li>Put\u00a0recycled paper mats and drying agent down.<\/li>\n<li>Adjust heat lamps to a good height and turn\u00a0them on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>At farrowing\n<ul>\n<li>no induction, do not use oxytocin, minimum sleevings, dry the<br \/>\npiglets and no teeth clipping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cross fostering\n<ul>\n<li>Leave the maximum number of piglets on their own mother<\/li>\n<li>Push the lactation for each individual sow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Culling the right sows\n<ul>\n<li>Those weaning less than 9 piglets because of a bad udder or crushing.<\/li>\n<li>Those with a long farrowing process<\/li>\n<li>Those with bad legs<\/li>\n<li>The cannibals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate goal of a farrowing facility management system is to produce a high number\u00a0of mature and healthy weaned piglets. The older and bigger the piglet is at weaning, the\u00a0higher the gain, the better the feed efficiency and the lower the cost up to slaughter.\u00a0Management around the farrowing process therefore has a great impact over [&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-19321","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\/19321","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=19321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19322,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions\/19322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}