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Hoof Trimming Prevents Lameness, Increases Longevity of Sows
2013-07-31 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - Research conducted by the Prairie Swine Centre suggests as high as 60 per cent of sow herd could benefit from hoof trimming as a method to prevent lameness and increase longevity, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Proposed Changes in Housing Gestating Sows Generates Concern
2013-07-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - Manitoba Pork Council reports the mandatory elimination of gestation stalls by 2024 proposed in the draft updated Pig Code of Practice is generating the most concern among the province's pork producers, Bruce Cochrane writes.
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Proposed Mandatory Conversion to Group Housing of Sows Creates Concerns
2013-07-05 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says the mandatory conversion to group housing of gestating sows from stalls recommended in a proposed revised Pig Code of Practice has generated the most concern among the province's pork producers, Bruce Cochrane writes.
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Feed Sows to Improve Piglet Quality
2013-06-24 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Pig nutritionists need to help producers improve piglet quality in order to wean more pigs from larger litters born, while geneticists look after piglet quantity. This was the view of Professor Sandra Edwards at the BPEX Innovation Conference, speaking about sow nutrition.
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Don’t Delay Culling Sows
2013-06-21 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Cull sow prices may be down — up to £30 per head compared with last year — but pig producers have been advised not to put off replacing older, less productive animals in their breeding herds.
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