Dr Mauricio Bara

My experience is that every time you give 2 ml or more the uterine contractions become faster but shorter and in many cases spasmotic which may result in inertia or sometimes rupture of the uterus. It is better to use 1/2 ml every half an hour or 1 ml evry hour, making sure that piglest are being born at 20 min. intervals (15 to 25 min). If more than 30 min have lapsed it is better to carry out a ...

Completely agree with Pablo. It is very important to analyse the data as for example my target for stillborn pigs is 0.7 pig/litter and 0.3 mummies/litter obviously there is no 0.7 of a pig in biological terms but is the average for the week or month or quater and in biological distributions, stillborns are higher in gilts compared to 2nd and 3rd parities but lower than 6th parity onwards and thus ...

Weaning at 14 days or earlier was used back in the 90's when trying to increased litters/sow/year and for disease control however is was rapidly noticed that the reproductive problems outweighted the benefits. This is because uterine involution requires 21 days so sows weaned early will take longer to come on heat and will also be prone to development of mastitis as Noni pointed after the second w ...

Good article about the Starting up a pig farm. But if starting up capital is not a problem, I think that before you decide on the number of sows that you want to have first you should be sure if you have adequate water and feed supply in your area, how far are you from the market (abattoir)?