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Does gilt performance dictate farm success?

2015-02-09 17:30:00| National Hog Farmer

By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, Neb. We wanted to take another look at gilt performance so we selected four production numbers: percent repeat service, farrowing rate, total born per female farrowed, and wean to first service interval and then sorted the data by gilt or P1 female performance. For the data set we selected 513 farms with 1.011 million mated females. read more

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