New perspectives and tendencies in sows reproduction
Pedro González Añover, D.V.M., Ph.D, Veterinary-technologist of swine section R&D department (Miavit GmbH)
The benefits of swine production in the reproductive area are determined by the number of piglets obtained per sow and year. The number of offspring per sow is determined, in turns, by the age at first farrowing, the interval among farrowings and the number of piglets in each farrowing (prolificacy). Prolificacy in swine, as in other multiparous species, depends on the number of ovulations and/or the embryo losses during pregnancy.
Is this a crisis?
«Crimean issue can reformat our pork market»
Dmitro Rozhko, director, «Priluky-GarantBud» Ltd., Chernigov region
Real price of artificial insemination
John Carr, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, an international independent consultant in pig industry
Most producers will buy semen or make semen doses all by themselves to get their sows and gilts pregnant. But there is a major concern — the price we pay for the semen bottle/flatpack. Is this rational? We should value the price of semen by the results, that we get from its’ using.
About some reasons to slaughter on higher weights
André van Lankveld, Swine Technical Manager, BIOMIN Gmbh (Austria)
The higher slaughter weights will influence: meat quality: More backfat depth (sow worse meat percentage), bigger lion, bigger hams, more intra muscular fat. growth rate can drop down after certain weights, this influences the feed conversion rates extremely. This is depending on genetics, sexe, health status and temperature. The influence of the increase of backfat depth is depending genetic, sexe, health status (often SPF status have higher backfat depth because of the increased feed intak capacity).Secrets of feed conversion efficiency
André van Lankveld, swine technical manager, Biomin GmbH (Austria)
Fluctuation of grain and pork market strongly influences the profitability of pig production business. The most critical situation is when feeds are expensive but the price of a kilo of live weight is low. However, even then a pig farm can gain money. The lower the feed conversion ratio is, the bigger the profits are. On what the feed conversion ratio depends and what way make it better read further in the article.
Galvanized metal constructions for rapid building of pig farm — the right choice
Zubco Alexander, CEO of «Promstan»
Metalwork firmly is taken its place in the building. Recently, more and more farmers are choosing LMK (light metal construction) for agricultural development.
Pig genetics: peculiarities of feeding of gestating sows
Peter-Jan Maas, Independent feed advisor (Netherlands)
Pork production is becoming more and more efficient primarily thanks to genetic progress. From this article you’ll learn about the peculiarities of the most globally spread genetic types of pigs, and also the factors that influence the maximum fulfillment of their potential.
Gastric ulcers — big loses
Pia Conradsen, doctor of veterinary medicine, co-owner of the company SvineVet (Denmark)
It’s difficult to avoid ulcer disease under conditions of intensive pork production. As a result pigs grow more slowly and the farm, consequaently, loses profits. However, from the economical point of view, the most critical problem is deaths of 2–3% of affected animals. That’s why it’s on behalf of pork producers to identify the problem and also to know how to cure it. There is some advice in the article that will help them.
Business will be profitable when there are efforts and understanding of technologies — LLC «Belhrankorm-Poltavschuna»
LLC «BELHRANKORM-POLTAVSCHUNA» — the only Russian investment project, which develops pig production in Ukraine. Although the uniqueness does not end there: a young management team in a new way has come to address many critical production issues. How it all began and by which a decision «Belhrankorm-Poltavschuna» now occupies one of the top positions in the list of the most successful producers of pork, the director of animal husbandry towards Vladislav Leshenko.
Estonian Pig Producers adopt Ukrainian experience
The delegation composed of 15 representatives of Estonian Pig Producers Association studied the features of Ukrainian pig production in May 2013 during the agricultural tour organized by RealTOURS.
Thus, the group started its exploration with a visit to State Enterprise «Danam Farms» as one of the industry leaders. During the meeting guests got to know how the husbandry with Danish investment entered Top-50 the best Ukrainian enterprises and owing to what technologies it became possible.
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