Weaning Capacity: Starting Smart
Optimizing Weaning Capacity is about creating the right conditions for overall success. Optimizing Weaning Capacity is about starting smart, setting up for a strong finish and meeting the expectations of the market. We will publish monthly a series of articles. The key success factors are:
  
Solid Sow Performance
It means that a sow is built to last. That she is productive and in the herd until you decide to replace her. By maximizing the number of full potential pigs she weans in a lifetime, we help minimize the genetic cost per pig marketed. In this series of articles we show you why Solid Sow Performance is economically significant and how you can improve your herd starting today.
- Stayability
Good physical evaluation and proper selection of gilts to meet basic requirements is essential before starting their productive life on farm. Stayability Whitepaper
- Retention Rate
It is very important that managers closely monitor and find a way to balance herd reproductive performance versus replacement rate versus economic implications. Robust genetic products with high genetic potential for stayability will allow sufficient room for managers to optimize replacement rates and performance. Retention Rate Whitepaper
- Sow Productive Lifetime
We recommend loading up gilts with as many as 12 - 14 piglets in their first parity, this contributes to udder and milk gland development, and has a positive impact on weaning ability in subsequent parities. Sow Productive Lifetime Whitepaper
Proven Sow Efficiency
When we talk about sow performance we are focusing on management factors like how easy is the breeding process? How efficiently does the sow herd convert feed into quality pigs? And how does labor contribute to the cost of a weaned pig? These articles provide practical information on how to improve sow efficiency.
- Efficient Breeding
When should Hypor gilts be bred for the first time? What is the cost of an extra day between weaning and first service? How can I reduce the weaning to first service interval? In this article we answer these questions and more. Efficient Breeding Whitepaper
- Feed Cost per Piglet
The high cost of feed is on everybody’s mind today. It’s fair that most of us spend a lot of time analyzing feed intake and conversion in the grow-finish barn but why stop there? In this article we take a close look at the cost of feeding the sow herd and investigate how we can minimize sow feed costs per pig weaned. Feed Cost per Piglet Whitepaper
- Efficient Use of Labor
With skilled and affordable labor becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and with over 50% of the labor on a typical farm taking place in the farrowing rooms, increasing sow labor efficiency is a significant factor in maximizing total system profitability. How do Hypor maternal lines help? Efficient Use of Labor Whitepaper
Enhanced Productivity
More than just the quantity of piglets a sow produces, the quality of these piglets is just as important. Litters should be large, but the piglets must also be large, uniform and robust in order to maximize their profit-earning potential. These three articles will explore the importance of birth & weaning weights, weight uniformity and piglet survivability.
- Weight Uniformity
Homogeneous piglet production helps maximize piglet potential, up to the slaughterhouse to achieve carcasses with optimal amounts of high quality meat. In addition, labor and management becomes easier. Identifying sick animals', optimizing diet, benefiting social order, and making marketing and sales easier. Whitepaper follows this week
- Birth and Weaning Weights
Weights of piglets are important factors in determining the weaning capacity of a sow. Producing large litters off good quality piglets, with good and uniform birth weight. It contributes towards a greater number and weight of weaned piglets and results in more kilograms of pork. Whitepaper follows this week
- Piglet Survivability
Efficient production of pork is a long-term process that is influenced by a very large number of factors from start to finish. The best results in finisher performance are achieved when starting with a healthy, uniform batch of animals that enable optimal numbers of pigs to be weaned. The major factors that determine profitability are: genetics, health and management. How can we optimize these three factors? Whitepaper follows this week
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