Boar Fertility – A Shift in Perspective
If our traditional semen quality parameters don’t adequately predict what we see in the field, what should we be measuring?
The Big Litter Concept
Weaning 8% more piglets per sow per year!
Gilt selection
GETTING THE RIGHT GILTS INTO YOUR SYSTEM By Dr Casey Bradley I am not sure about all of you, but I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Christine Snowden. I really appreciate how she slows down and takes her time to select the correct gilts. Through this endeavor she has created an ideal parity hierarchy in her system while also being able to cull on sow index to make further genetic progress. In case you are unfamiliar with my background, sow longevity and gilt development has been a passion of mine ever since my first taste of large-scale swine production. I remember very clearly the amount of gilts that we had to euthanize on a weekly basis. Then having to harvest her unborn litter via a C-section because she splayed in late gestation and could not make it to the farrowing room or deliver her babies naturally. It absolutely broke my [...]