Clarisa Lope

We always have to consider the body condition of both sows and gilts. But after farrowing I think its difficult to maintain a target weight. And also weighing individual sows is very tedious to do most especially for commercial farms. I think proper monitoring of feed consumption based on the specs of the feed is the best way. In this way you can easily assess the ideal body condition score per ev ...

Swine flu scare has a big impact not only for human health but most specially in the animal industry. Though it was already stated that there is no cross contamination from properly cooked carcass, people are now thinking of reducing pork consumption just to assure their security from the virus contamination. A reduction in pork demand will leads to low farm gate price of hogs making the farm owne ...