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2019-02-06 16:04:00| National Hog Farmer
Part of the questioning around wean age was driven by the ability for farms to operate at 30 or more pigs weaned per mated female per year.
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Effect of weaning age P1 females on farrowing rate and total born
2015-12-07 13:56:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE In order to wean larger litters from P1 females, it is important to make gilt development a priority, set a minimum weaning age for the farm and make sure sows are feed properly to ensure solid reproduction performance. read more
How Much Weaning Age Variation Does Your Farm Have?
2014-08-04 16:46:00| National Hog Farmer
Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE A data set of the top 10% of 629 farms had an average weaning age of 19.88 days, bottom 30% at 20.74 days with all farms average of 20.46 days with a range of 14.83 to 28.42 days.These farms had a range of 20.11 to 34.01 pigs weaned per mated female. But what about the variation in weaning age. We looked at the data and were surprised to see so much variation in weaning age of pigs. read more
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