Each and every farmer has their very own manner of recording sow matings: some use a pocket book, others a calendar, and nonetheless others published pages from a sow control tool… The necessary factor is that this is a easy, environment friendly, and efficient approach.
The report will have to comprise no less than the very important information concerning the sow’s mating, which can also be lowered to 3 pieces:
- Date
- Sow quantity
- Boar quantity
In fact, it could be really useful that this information be supplemented with different information that don’t seem to be as very important however which can be helpful for reproductive control, corresponding to notes at the sow which can be regarded as necessary. As an example, if she is returned to estrus, if she has passed through hormone remedy, if she has any issues, if we’re recently trying out a selected catheter, a brand new insemination approach, and so on.
It’s obligatory to stay a paper report of matings, even for many who use laptop techniques, to have a backup replica in case of lack of digital information.
For a number of years, SUIVET has presented a logbook through which every web page corresponds to every week of the 12 months, the place all of the matings carried out all over the week can also be recorded: the former web page and the next web page comprise the matings of the respective weeks.
This “weekly” control of the check in facilitates the annotation and next session of the knowledge, even within the control of batch farrowing programs.
In this instance, we provide a weekly check in that has an extra characteristic: it’s designed within the taste of cope with books (just like the previous paper phone books), and at the right-hand aspect there are 52 tabs, akin to the weeks of the 12 months.
The reason being that during fashionable pig control, all calculations, reproductive concerns, and so on. are completed in weekly multiples. The estrous cycle of sows is 3 weeks, lactation takes position at 3 or 4 weeks, in some international locations sows will have to be grouped (welfare rules) 4 weeks after carrier, and so on…
Thus, via having a pocket book with weekly tabs, it’s conceivable to track the sows again to a selected crew.
If we’re in week 20 and we need to transfer the sows from the crates to the pens, simply put your finger on quantity 16, open the web page, and you are going to have the checklist of sows.
If a sow returns to estrus, merely open week 17 to search out the former mating and erase it.
And so forth…