Porcine Health Management

To monitor production parameters farms started to use data collecting and analyzing management tools. One of the most important economic parameters of sow farms is the farrowing rate.

Most of the sow farms in Hungary utilize hyper prolific breeds, and they usually have high culling rates. Sometimes the sows, which are culled due to reproductive failures, have functional ovaries, but the farm cannot detect this with data analysis,...

Swine production has markedly increased its reproductive performance over the past 50 years. One of the most important limitations to continue increasing the size of the litter, or to fully express the genetic potential of the breeders, is the prenatal...

New technologies and innovative farm’s equipment allow massive data collection that properly used can help to optimise production. In particular, electronic sow feeding is helping to understand better sows’ needs and performance. This study aimed to...

The objective of this study was to describe the evolution during the last 10 years for the reproductive KPIs including: farrowing rate (FR), adjusted farrowing rate (AFR) and number of repeat services (RS), including big and small farms because of its...

The objective of this study was to describe the evolution during the last 10 years for the reproductive KPIs including total born (TB), born alive (BA), still born (SB), mummifies (MM), weaning to first service interval (WFSI) and preweaning mortality...

The objective of this study was to describe the evolution during 2008-2018 (June to June) for the reproductive KPIs including farrowing rate (FR), adjusted farrowing rate (AFR) and number of repeat services (RS).