A crop of good reasons for you to bunch your farrowings

摘要

Any breed-finish enterprise that farrows sows and weans litters every week could gain from changing to a reduced frequency. A new mating schedule to concentrate these events into batches every 3 weeks, for example, offers lower production costs through a better use of feed and labour. The greater batch-to-batch difference in age and size supports all-in/all-out management and there may also be a saving in the housing cost per pig.