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Management of the gilt for breeding and in first gestation for longevity

2015-04-10 23:49:00| National Hog Farmer

By Rob Knox, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; and Jenny Patterson and George Foxcroft, Swine Research and Technology Center, University of Alberta, Edmonton Herd parity distribution results from the frequency of retention and removals following entry, with an ideal and actual parity structure that often differ in the sows retained into the later parities. read more

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Growth and nutrition effects on gilt development

2015-04-10 22:16:00| National Hog Farmer

By JL Vallet, USDA, ARS, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Neb. Growth and development affects not only a gilts ability to reach puberty, it also likely affects their reproductive performance through later parities and their physical soundness as they age. read more

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Gilt diversifies its shipping strategy

2015-04-07 23:07:34| Logistics - Topix.net

B2B e-commerce is larger than retail e-commerce in transaction volume. Read key data on industry sales, trends in marketing and web content, technology investment, and more.

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Dealing with Gilt Pool Management, Gilt Pool Size

2015-03-03 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

CHINA - Overproduction drives up variable costs by reducing feed efficiency, herd health and poorer quality pigs, write Lorne and Vick Tannas, swine specialists and nucleus support for Genesus farms in China.

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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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