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Smithfield Foods continues pig gestation crate phase-out
2015-01-06 16:43:46| Food - Topix.net
Smithfield Foods says it is continuing to make progress on ending the practice of keeping female hogs in small metal crates while pregnant at its U.S. facilities. The world's largest pork producer said Tuesday its Murphy-Brown subsidiary has moved more than 70 percent of its pregnant sows from the crates to group housing at its about 450 farms.
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Does Gestation Length Affect Wean-to-First-Service Interval?
2014-12-08 18:56:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE To continue looking at the effect of gestation length on production numbers we will end the year looking to see if wean-to-first service interval is influenced by the previous gestation length of the sow. read more
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Total Born and Stillborn by Parity and Gestation Length
2014-11-10 17:51:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE As total born for the industry has improved the last few years and that average gestation length for some of the genetic companies has gone up with the total born being the higher for sows that gestate 112-114 days. If you are going to be doing any inducing of sows you need to know the range in gestation length as well as the average at your farm in order to know the best time to induce sows at your farm. read more
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Total Born and Stillborn by Parity and Gestation Length
2014-11-10 17:51:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE As total born for the industry has improved the last few years and that average gestation length for some of the genetic companies has gone up with the total born being the higher for sows that gestate 112-114 days. If you are going to be doing any inducing of sows you need to know the range in gestation length as well as the average at your farm in order to know the best time to induce sows at your farm. read more
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Gestation Length and Inducing: What do we know?
2014-10-06 23:48:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE Along with affecting piglet birth weight and colostrum we know that if a sow is induced too early that she will have smaller pigs, sometimes pigs that have lower viability, more farrowing difficulties, and some sows that do not have or produce enough milk. read more
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