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Wean-to-First Service's Correlation to Farrowing Rate and Total Born / Female Farrowed

2014-02-07 17:16:00| National Hog Farmer

By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE We consult monthly or quarterly with over 120 farms in the USA and Canada, when we were analyzing the farms last month, we were seeing farms with Wean to 1st Service Intervals below 5 days. We track several production traits by week and now have a data set that is 9 years old. We had been noticing over the last year that there has been a nice drop in the Wean to 1st Service Interval the last 18-24 months. read more

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