Cross fostering and nurse sows (I): How to handle hyperprolific sows
Here are three basic rules for deciding if and when to do cross fostering and use nurse sows.
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Here are three basic rules for deciding if and when to do cross fostering and use nurse sows.
The goal is to make the management during the gestation easier using a different colour spray colour each week to mark the tasks carried out with the sows.
Everything you need to know to successfully wean your piglets.
A review of vaccine administration routes, administration methods according to the type of animal, and how to manage vaccination supplies.
We focus on moving surplus piglets, which forces us to use nurse sows. We explain two ways to do this in a very visual video.
To ensure that each piglet intakes enough colostrum and to help the smallest piglets get it, split suckling should be used.
Javier Lorente outlines step by step the keys to reducing piglet stress during the weaning process.
To ensure vaccines work properly, we must carefully control certain critical points in their handling.
Javier Lorente tells us how to make newly weaned piglets comfortable and, above all, how to get them to start drinking and eating as soon as possible.
Do's and don'ts of vaccine storage regarding location, temperature control, maintenance, and traceability.
In this last article in the series we discuss the main causes of “vaccine failure”, i.e. when we aren't sure that vaccines are working or they are only partially working.