The objectives of this study were to determine associations between low farrowing rate and various management factors in sow herds. In 30 sow herds, a management survey, breeding observations, semen evaluation, and semen storage temperature monitoring were completed. Herds with an average farrowing rate of, 85% were classified as low farrowing rate herds while those with an average farrowing rate of $ 85% were classified as good farrowing rate herds. Low farrowing rate herds were more likely than good farrowing rate herds to move boars into gilt pens for estrus detection, breed a high proportion of sows by artificial insemination (AI) only, start heat detection 3 d post-weaning, wipe the vulva prior to breeding, and use \u201chands-free\u201d AI devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The objectives of this study were to determine associations between low farrowing rate and various management factors in sow herds. In 30 sow herds, a management survey, breeding observations, semen evaluation, and semen storage temperature monitoring were completed. Herds with an average farrowing rate of, 85% were classified as low farrowing rate herds while those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[7995,8882,13816,5162,785,2349,2344,2817,5886,103,7846,24371,20007,105,24981,23053,23523,269,5620,48,12815,10859,16262,3753,7994,104,96,10101,309,431,35,20911,25358,99,6053,77],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-ai-devices","tag-al","tag-ass","tag-boar","tag-boars","tag-breed","tag-breeding","tag-cla","tag-farrow","tag-farrowing","tag-farrowing-rate","tag-farrowing-rate-low","tag-gh","tag-gilt","tag-gilt-estrus","tag-gilt-pen","tag-gilt-pens","tag-heat","tag-insemination","tag-management","tag-management-factors-associated-with-farrowing-rate-in-commercial-sow-herds-in-ontario","tag-nat","tag-pl","tag-semen","tag-semen-storage","tag-sow","tag-sows","tag-start","tag-storage","tag-survey","tag-swine","tag-t","tag-t-pens","tag-temperature","tag-use","tag-weaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959","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=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10619,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}