Telma Tucci

A simple piece of cigarette paper will help us to evaluate, in an unbiased way, if the surfaces are completely dry after their cleaning and disinfection.

This trick consists in offering cheap manipulable materials that satisfy the pigs' needs.

The strategy involves synchronizing the gilts so they come into heat at the same time, in order to properly manage the number of inseminations targeted for each lot.

Build a fence to keep the weaned piglets in a farrowing pen.

The goal of this trick is to make a practical, simple and cheap catheter holder.

This trick consists in using a spring for holding the semen bag during the insemination.

This trick consists in creating a nest using the crates back corridor.

The idea is to modify the doors of the pen where sows are housed in groups to increase the contact with the boar.

An easy solution to store these feeders is to hang them in the corridor of their room. In this way, they do not stand in the way and they can dry well before being used again.

This trick shows how to reduce the cleaning time of the fattening pens with a solid floor.

It is easy to see the reaction of the sows (of all of them!) when we supply them with paper. A handful in front of their snout or at the reach of their mouth is enough... oxytocin! It is like giving an injection!

A simple, economical and practical trick is to identify the replacement gilts with tags of different colours according to the batch they belong to.

This article offers a new alternative to plastic feed scoops, the use of a 5/10-liter can made of strong plastic and with a built-in handle.

We explain a simple and easy method for cleaning creep feeders.

How to have all the information about the weanings available in a simple way.

A new, not yet tested material could help mitigate tail biting in growing and finishing pigs.

Leaving tools on top of pen dividers is not always the best option...

Since 2017 the number of gilts coming into heat (with standing reflex) has gradually fallen to levels less than 50-60% of the gilts ready to be inseminated...

We went to visit an Italian farm where the sows are free housed in the farrowing room. We asked some questions to better understand the system.

Pig333 interviewed Prof. Pulina of the University of Sassari who has been involved in eradicating African swine fever in Sardinia. ASF arrived on the island in 1978 through contaminated pork products. After many years of struggle, the virus has now been eradicated.