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Strategies to move more pigs from birth to harvest
2020-01-16 15:20:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Litter sizes on US hog farms have steadily increased over the past couple of decades, with 14, 16, even 20 pigs per litter commonplace. But thats a good-news/bad-news development as those large litters often come at a price, which is more low-birthweight piglets.
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Genome editing used to birth castration-free prototype piglets
2019-06-19 19:10:00| National Hog Farmer
Since these prototype pigs were created to be permanently prepubescent, the alliance is determining how to breed these pigs without comprising traits like feed efficiency and meat quality.
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Variability of piglet birth weights balanced with sow nutrition
2019-05-16 15:28:00| National Hog Farmer
Traditional litter characteristics used to evaluate sow reproductive performance may not tell the complete story for modern sows. Evaluating sow feeding strategies able to promote performance of large litters demand attention.
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Presence of rotavirus and C. suis increases from birth to six weeks of age in Swedish pig farms
2019-02-11 14:46:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
New research investigates the prevalence of two important pathogens in suckling and early post-weaned piglets in systems with solid floors and age-segregated rearing.
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Hypor announces birth of first batch of Maxter piglets
2018-11-01 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Successful companies don’t react to change; they drive it. With that in mind, at the beginning of this year Hypor opened the doors on a new state-of-the-art facility in Sichamps, France.
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