Management and housing factors associated with piglet preweaning mortality... There was no relationship observed between preweaning mortality and housing and management characteristics such as the use of bedding or no bedding, batch farrowing versus continuous farrowing and single-use compared to multi-use farrowing rooms....
Prepartum progestagen supplementation in swine: a strategy to facilitate piglet care and prevent early parturition... To facilitate assistance, induction of farrowing using prostaglandin F2α (PGF) has been widely used in batch farrowing systems, whereby synchronization would concentrate the time of farrowing, allowing for better organization of employees....
Strategical and tactical management measures... Relative to our subject, an example of a relatively new global strategy for the sow herd is the batch farrowing management system mainly adopted for farrowing sows and piglets management, which is the topic of this presentation....
Induction of lactational estrus in organic piglet production... However, if lactational estrus is to be beneficial under practical husbandry conditions, it is crucial that the majority of sows are successfully mated within a few days to make batch farrowing procedures possible....
