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Defining Ideal Sow Body Condition

2013-10-23 21:39:00| National Hog Farmer

By Mark Knauer, North Carolina State University Maintaining optimal sow body condition is an important strategy to maximize animal well-being and sow lifetime productivity. Most commercial producers feed gestating sows based on a visual (subjective) measure of body condition. However, the majority of barn workers, farm managers and service people are not highly trained in estimating body composition. read more

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