Pig Production What the Textbooks Don't Tell

This well-researched discussion of pig production documents as many as 50 subjects that may not have been adequately covered by other references, such as pig business management, minimizing disease, new developments in current and future pig production, ideas which maximize profit, and 14 subjects written specifically for the stockperson/pig technician.

John Gadd, while he lives in England, through his writing and travel has been described as "one of the best-known people in pigs in the world". He has been involved solely in pig production for 40 years both at commercial and grass-roots levels, and has been writing about pigs for 34 years with over 2,500 technical articles and papers published to date. He won the prestigious agricultural Business Writer of the Year award in 1996 and has his own quarterly magazine on technical pig production. The Pig Pen is now in its 8th year.

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

xi

Running an Efficient Pig Business

How to buy pigfeed

3

(10)

Buying breeding stock

13

(4)

Buying skills

17

(4)

Selling to the pig farmer

21

(4)

Questions to ask the feed supplement saleseman

25

(4)

Specificity and prioritization

29

(4)

Value for money

33

(6)

The new terminology

39

(8)

Negotiating skills

47

(4)

Managing to Maximise Profit

The cost of poor growth rate

51

(6)

Weaning weight

57

(4)

The problem of wasted food

61

(6)

Water wastage

67

(6)

Medicating pigs - feed or water?

73

(6)

Birthweights

79

(8)

Farming sows in groups

87

(4)

Gilt pools

91

(8)

On-farm trials

99

(4)

Farm trials; is employing a statistician too expensive?

103

(4)

Yield (carcase dressing percent; killing out percent)

107

(6)

Pig Technician's Section - Ideas for the stockperson of tomorrow

Some thoughts for the (usually) overworked pig technician

113

(6)

Sows per man? . . . or man hours per sow?

119

(4)

Feeder adjustment

123

(4)

Condensation

127

(4)

Moving and handling pigs for shipping

131

(4)

Doing a stress audit

135

(4)

Water - the basics

139

(4)

Two good new ideas with water

143

(6)

More on water: requirements, flow rate and some thoughts on drinkers

149

(6)

Watering that sow in lactation

155

(4)

Stomach tubing

159

(4)

Double-taping splays pays off!

163

(6)

Stimulating gilts

169

(2)

Heat detection

171

(6)

The Escalating Problem of Disease

Building a stronger immune barrier

177

(4)

Feedback and immunity

181

(4)

PMWS

185

(8)

Cleaning and disinfection

193

(6)

Vehicle sanitation

199

(4)

How to buy sanitising material

203

(6)

Modern Techniques and New Possibilities

Essential rules for successful 28/30 day weaning

209

(4)

Later weaning - how to defend that sow

213

(6)

The economics of later weaning

219

(4)

Wean-to-finish

223

(4)

Dietary fats

227

(4)

A checklist for partial destocking

231

(6)

Batch farrowing/weaning catching on in Europe

237

(4)

Is streaming affordable?

241

(6)

Challenge feeding/target formulation

247

(4)

Menu feeding of pigs

251

(6)

Index

257

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Pig Production What the Textbooks Don't Tell You

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