The Pig Issue

THE PIG ISSUE is Garth Partnership's dedicated quarterly newsletter for clients and producers.

The Pig Issue - February 2010

A belated Happy New Year to you all. With 2009 a year of decent returns and above all significantly improved health on the majority of units we look forward to 2010 hoping this will be sustained, many of the pointers and opinions been aired suggest it may well do. This version of the newsletter contains a couple of articles on health improvement schemes...

The Pig Issue October 2009

Worming  It’s that time of year again. It is important to worm sows regularly, and to use a broad spectrum anthelmintic such as Flubenol that eliminates larvae as well as mature worms and all nematodes, not just ascarids. Loose housing and solid floored systems help the spread of worms, so use a disinfectant capable of attacking the worm...

The Pig Issue August 2009

To bite or not to bite.  Pigs have the same basic desires as us - eating and sex, both of these being essential for the continuation of the species.  Recent research at Queens University, Belfast has shown that pigs in enriched environments will spend 33% of daylight hours rooting substrate.  This rooting is expressed in order to satisfy...

The Pig Issue Summer 2009

 Autumn Infertility Every year producers are reminded about reduced fertility in the Autumn period, unfortunately very few do anything to allow for the Autumn drop in fertility. Currently with the good economic conditions for pigs each litter has a nominal value of circa £500 for a farrow to finish farm - hence losing producitivty due to...