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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

SECTION ONE: The sow in action

• Looking back and looking forward
• The breeder
• Using indicators for better breeding
• Keeping the farm healthy
• Multiple week systems
• Group housing is the future
• Which type of group housing?

SECTION TWO: Farrowing, sucking and suckling

• A clean, dry pen
• Monitoring during farrowing
• Intervening during birth
• Stillborn or died after birth?
• Condition
• Water and feed
• Selection and culling
• Euthanasia
• Weaning

SECTION THREE: On to the next litter

• The heat cycle
• Into full heat quickly
• Heat in the farrowing unit
• Ten ingredients for an ideal service unit
• Signals from the sow
• Signals from the boar
• You really can't imitate a boar!
• When to inseminate?
• How to inseminate?

SECTION FOUR: The gestating sow?

• Gestating or not?
• Return to service or small litter
• Embryo survival
• Analysis of repeat inseminations
• Fertility and infections
• Heat stress
• Autumn dip
• Sow mortality
• The best breeders are the best feeders
• Satiety after feeding

SECTION FIVE: Glits, your farm's future

• Buy in or breed yourself?
• Selection to perfection
• Selection chart
• Arrivals
• Feed your gilts well
• Inducing oestrus and inseminating
• From 25 to 30 piglets
• Checklist to prevent introduction and trasmission of diseases

INDEX

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