National Hog Farmer

Feed Sows For Condition, Productivity 

Apr 15, 2006 - By Mike Tokach and Joel DeRouchey, Kansas State University

When designing a feeding program for gestating sows, it is important to remember the overall goals for the nutrition program: Prepare sows to be in proper...

Managing Sows In Gestation 

Apr 15, 2006 - By Dale Miller Editor

Sow herd management is generally broken into the three phases of a sow's life gestating a litter, nursing a litter and not pregnant but getting ready...

Optimizing Cull Sow Value 

Apr 15, 2006 - By Robert Fitzgerald, Ken Stalder, and Locke Karriker, DVM, Iowa State University

When is the best time to market cull sows? Before pork producers can answer this seemingly easy question, some additional questions must be thought through:...

Sow Condition Scoring Guidelines 

Apr 15, 2006 - By Colin Johnson, Ken Stalder, and Locke Karriker, DVM, Iowa State University

Sow herd culling and mortality rates have reached unacceptable levels in some herds. Reproductive failure is the most common reason sows are culled from...

Understanding Why Sows Are Culled 

Apr 15, 2006 - By Mark Knauer, Locke Karriker, DVM and Ken Stalder, Iowa State University

Sow culling rates have a direct correlation to the economic efficiency of a breeding herd. Some sows are culled voluntarily in an effort to improve overall...

Neutralizing Chronic, Acute Disease Challenges 

Apr 15, 2006 - By Locke Karriker, DVM, and Ken Stalder, Iowa State University

Sow and gilt health maintenance in gestation is impacted by a host of factors. The traditional approach to sow and gilt health uses and synonymously....

Gestation Sow Housing Options Abound 

Apr 15, 2006 - By Donald G. Levis, University of Nebraska

The method of housing sows during the breeding-gestation phases of pork production has undergone considerable transition during the last 40 years. The...

Arizona Producers Fight To Keep Gestation Stalls 

Mar 15, 2006 - By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Farm groups' coalition responds to activists' charges. Voters approved a constitutional amendment a few years back to ban sow gestation stalls in Florida....

Cutting Gestation Feed Pays Clear Dividends 

Feb 15, 2006 - by Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Typically in the Holden Farms' 30,000-sow production system, keeping sows slightly on the heavier side and with a slightly higher backfat of 3/4-in. (18-19...

DDGS Boosts Sow Nutrition 

Feb 15, 2006

High-producing lactating sows can thrive using 15% distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to help meet their nutritional needs. Equally important,...

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