Pig Production & Welfare

Basic Facts
(What - Name - Housing)

Birth - ❌ - ❌
Weaning - ❌ - ❌
Transfer - ❌ - ❌
Slaughter - ❌ - Growing Shed
Breeding Selection - ❌ - ❌
Lactaion - ❌ - Farrowing Area
Weaning - Sow - ❌

Efficiency

Feed to Meat Ratio - ❌
= Total ❌

Feed to Meat Price Ratio - ❌
= ❌

Sow Reproduction
Puberty @ ❌
Oestrus cycle = ❌
Mated ❌
Gestation = ❌
Lactation = ❌
Weaning to Mating again = ❌
Piglets per litter = ❌
Mortality before weaning = ❌
Mortality after weaning = ❌

Boar Reproduction
Effect on ❌ in sows and gilts
Services per week = ❌
Natural mating = ❌
Artificial Insemination = ❌

Farrowing Systems
Domestic Sows produce ❌ litters

System Achievements:
Decrease ❌
High ❌
Easier ❌
Separation of ❌
Safe and easy ❌

Cant be in crate...
❌ before farrowing
❌ for lactation
❌

Mortality
Adaption Problem: Piglets transitioned from a ❌ environment to ❌

Approx. ❌ of mortality occurs in the first ❌
- ❌
- must overcome ❌ ❌ challenges

❌ mortality indoor with crates - ❌ outdoors
Main causes:
- ❌
- ❌
- ❌

Piglet deficiencies
- low ❌
- immature ❌
- limited ❌

High and Low Viability Survival Characteristics

High:
- ❌
- born ❌
- higher ❌
- more frequently ❌
- rapidly ❌

Low:
- ❌
- born ❌
- longer ❌
- born ❌
- take ❌
- born with ❌

Piglet Husbandry Procedures
1. Teeth ❌
- clipping or grinding ❌
- removes ❌
- prevents ❌ and ❌

2. Tail ❌
- prevent ❌
- must be ❌

3. Fostering & Equalising ❌
- adjust ❌ to ❌
- group ❌