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Improving Piglet Survival Can Lead to Producer Payoff
2013-12-09 22:47:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE As we head into a period of high profitability for the pork industry, is your farm ready to take advantage of this by maximizing the number of quality pigs you can produce and sell? With iso-wean pigs being sold at $70.00+, hog futures near a carcass price of $100.00 per cwt., and feed costs dropping, how much more money could you make if you had fewer stillborns and lowered pre-weaning mortality percentages at your sow farm? read more
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Babcock Genetics Releases Piglet Birth Weight Research
2013-11-26 06:00:00| National Hog Farmer
Babcock Genetics, Inc., a worldwide supplier of swine genetics, today released groundbreaking research showing the impact of individual piglet birth weight on profit margin. Individual piglet value was established by tracking mortality to the day it occurred. read more
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Sow Housing Rules Could Cost One Piglet Per Litter
2013-11-22 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Banning sow stalls could be costing the UK pig industry one piglet per litter, a BPEX conference was told this week, reports Editor, Michael Priestley.
Probiotics Fight Piglet Pathogens
2013-11-15 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GERMANY - Piglets fed probiotic Enterococcus faecium showed reduced numbers of potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli strains in their intestines, according to a team of German researchers.
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Analyzing Piglet Death Loss by Lactation Day
2013-10-14 22:09:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE This is the third in a series looking at how farm size affects piglet survival by parity, and how piglet death loss varies by lactation day. The ideas for these three articles came from a group in Ohio. read more
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