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Total Born for First Parity Females Drives Future Production

2014-03-10 20:10:00| National Hog Farmer

By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE As we look at the farms we consult with every month, we continue to discover new trends and interactions. Several months ago we wrote about how farrowing rate for the gilts--or Parity 0 (P0) females was directly correlated to the farrowing rate for the whole farm. Farms with higher gilt farrowing rates had a higher total farrowing rate for the farm. We have seen farms with higher numbers of total pigs born for Parity 1 (P1) females also showing higher pigs weaned/mated female /year. So we decided to delve into the topic of total born in more detail for this article. read more

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