Modern Pig Production Technology: A Practical Guide to Profit

Modern Pig Production Technology: A Practical Guide to Profit PDF

By John Gadd

Modern Pig Production Technology: A Practical Guide to Profit PDF is the third textbook from this award-winning and internationally-recognised pig consultant. Having already covered ‘Pig production Problems’ and their solutions followed by ‘What the Textbooks don’t tell You’, this new book goes further in providing practical, easy-to-understand advice on all the important management techniques used by the most successful pig producers today. It also describes and analyses likely future developments and how they might fit in to the economic scene.

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Table of Contents

1 Creep Feeding science The Latest

2 Getting Bigger Litters

3 Big Litters and Good B irthweights

4 Avoiding post-weaning problems

5 Immunity Everyone’s blind spot

6 Stress explained and how it affects profit

7 Managing Today’s Hyperprolific Gilts

8 Proper Biosecurity What it really entails

9 Mycotoxins Another hidden profit thief

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT SECTION

10 Why we need more cost-effective terminology

11 Managing People What The Experts Do

12 Sharing the Load Business Partnerships

13 Modern and Future Records

14 Contracts How to Minimise Business Risk

15 Growth Rate

16 A New Look at Food Conversion Ratio

17 Mixing Pigs Without Tears

18 Stocking Density -A Worldwide Failing

19 Wet Feeding Gathering Pace

20 Batch Farrowing

21 Parity Segregation

22 Avoiding the Seasonal Infertility Headache

23 Dealing with Hot Weather

24 Dirty Pens and their Prevention

25 How to Avoid Tail Biting and Other Vices

Further Reading

A Glossary of 450 Technical Terms in pig production

Index

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