Piglets A Practical Guide to Successful Piglet Rearing
Piglets A Practical Guide to Successful Piglet Rearing
Author(s): Marrit Van Engen, Arnold De Vries & Kees Scheepens‘Piglets’ is the newest edition in the well-known Pig Signals® series. It follows the piglet from birth until the moment it arrives on the pork producer’s farm. The Pig Signals series currently comprises ‘Pig Signals’, ‘Sows’ and ‘Finishing Pigs’.
Another title in this series, ‘Sows’, places the emphasis on producing as many lusty piglets as possible per year. How do you then keep those piglets healthy, so that they can develop into good finishing pigs? This is the subject-matter of ‘Piglets’, which follows the piglet from birth until the moment it arrives on the pork producer’s farm. ‘Piglets’ describes in a practical fashion how pig farmers can improve their management, with the goal of producing healthy piglets for finishing.
This book is also available in the following languages:
- Nederlands
- Deutsch
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Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 20.4 x 26.5cm
Weight: Unknown
Extent: 56
ISBN: 978-90-8740-032-3
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Introduction
1. The glimmer of daylight
1. The glimmer of daylight
- Uniformity determined at service
- Finding the ideal farrowing pen
- The farrowing pen of the future
- Clean conditions
- 3 months, 3 weeks and 3, 4 or 5 days?
- Alive and kicking
- Off to a flying start
- Defects and abnormalities
- Genetically different
- Getting straight to the teat
- Importance of colostrum
- Never enough antibodies
- Keeping milk production levels up
- Too many piglets
- Russian roulette
- Too hot, too cold?
- The piglet will tell you.
- Treatments and handling
- Hygiene matters
- The suckling process
- Limits on growth
- Early lessons last a lifetime
- Supplementary feeding
- Diarrhoea in the farrowing room
- Contrary effect of antibiotics
- Spread of diseases from pen to pen
- Streptococci
- Living and learning
- Inspecting piglets is an art
- Ready for weaning?
- Convenience for man and animal
- Sorting affects growth
- Room temperature
- Intestinal villi and feeding
- Eating after weaning
- From teat to feeder
- Liquid feeding increases intakes
- Inspection and care
- Teaching hunger strikers to eat
- A five-star hotel for top piglets
- Thin bellies and tasty food?!
- The right choice for piglet and farmer
- Pamper the piglets a bit
- Water, essential to life
- Good disease resistance is a plus
- Thorough inspection takes time
- Streptococci hard to spot
- Undesirable and abnormal behaviour
- The finishing touch
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