IMPROVE PIGLET PERFORMANCE IN THE FARROWING PERIOD
Written by Christoph Hutter, Product Manager Feed Additives, ADDCON GmbH and Dr. Christian Lückstädt, Technical Director Feed, ADDCON GmbH. The successful rearing of many high-quality DanBred piglets is centred around the attentive management of the sows as well as the piglets. When working with new-born piglets, it is important to look at all factors that […]
Managing high litter size from farrowing until weaning
By Flemming Thorup, DVM, Senior Scientist, SEGES Pig Production, Livestock Innovation, ft@seges.dk Abstract Managing a sow with less piglets than milk glands is simple. When the number of piglets at the sow exceeds the number of milk glands, you need to improve your management. Management in the farrowing unit can be divided into 4 parts. […]
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 […]
