Ah yes, furrowing. I always farrowed in pens with a creep area in a corner for the piglets. Here are just a couple of things I learned. Number one is you may end up with a sow that is a pig eater. What I would do is replace some of the soybean meal, in the sows ration, with meat and bone scrap. This will help suppress the sows urge to eat her pigs. Then there are runts. There is no place in a litter for a knobby headed runt. They will be pushed around by the stronger pigs in the litter, then weaken and start squeaking. This will upset the sow, and she will end up squashing a bunch of good pigs in her excitement. If you do have any runts take them out right away and kill them. You'll save a lot of pigs by doing this. Also keep your sows as white as possible. Meaning use white colored breeds for your sow heard. Yorkshire are supposed to be good mother, but I found them to be too protective of there litters and hard to handle. The breed I liked to use was the Landrace. A Landrace Hampshire cross was a good place to start. Then for good carcass quality breed them with a good Duroc. But when it's time to breed for replacements breed them with a Chester White. When I finally gave up on A.I breeding I got hooked up with a producer who breed everything with A.I. He sold boars and gilts and had three blood lines to rotate to. One he called the red line, the second was blue line and the third was called the white line. If you started with his white line gilts he would sell you a blue line boar to go with them. Then after you raised your replacements you would buy a red line boar for them. You could keep that rotation going for a long time. The pigs from this system were really high quality.
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