Balanced breeding for ambitious results
DanBred’s current breeding goals include several traits, which contribute to maintaining optimal animal health and welfare for our high-performance animals. DanBred’s breeding goals DanBred’s breeding goals are balanced and include the most economically important traits for pig producers such as finisher efficiency, maternal traits, robustness and meat quality traits. Although some traits may have […]
Take care of your growing gilts – Focus on optimising vitamin D levels
By Sigrid Beth Rasmussen, Junior Quality Manager, DanBred Are you aware that the correct vitamin D status will allow gilts and sows to reach their optimal KPI’s in production, helping to maximise their genetic potential? Vitamin D is essential for the absorbtion of calcium and phosphorus, promoting healthy bone growth, helping to ensure correct conformation […]
Heating around the time of birth saves 0.3 piglets per litter
Written by Dorthe Poulsgård Frandsen, Senior Specialist, SEGES Danish Pig Research Centre, Abstract Additional heat around the time of farrowing significantly increased the rectal temperature of piglets weighing 900 g or less. Rectal temperature is an indicator of piglets’ survival chances, ie. the higher the body temperature above the lower critical temperature, the better the […]
DanBred Duroc: New trait will improve piglet survival
The trait ‘Male fertility’ in DanBred Duroc breeding goal has changed into ‘Fertility & Survival’ effective Thursday February 27th, 2020. According to simulations from DanBred R&D – the Danish Pig Research Centre – this change will lead to improved piglet survival as early as this year. When piglets survive the first five days, chances of […]
Danish Feeding Strategy Works for all Genotypes
Did you know that by following a Danish feeding strategy, both the litter size and the number of born alive piglets can be significantly increased without additional feed costs regardless of genotype? In late 2019 a study conducted by Zhou et al. confirmed that the Danish feeding system could significantly increase the litter size and […]
Gastric ulcers in swine – A serious welfare and health problem in pig production
Written by Roger Berrios, Product Manager Acids, Biomin Holding GmbH Simon Skaarup Jensen, Technical Sales Manager Swine, Biomin Holding GmbH Andre VAN LANKVELD, Regional Director Western Europe, Biomin Holding GmbH Introduction Gastric ulceration or gastric (stomach) ulcers is a condition that is common in pigs. A gastric ulcer is defined as a gastric mucosal […]
