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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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