Raizup Nutrition Care has dedicated several years to addressing a specific stage: sow dry-off. Through our efforts, we’ve identified that a strategic focus on this critical event significantly boosts performance by optimizing both reproductive and udder health.
We were delighted to share the latest insights on this often-overlooked subject with our valued customers and esteemed guests. This crucial stage presents untapped potential to enhance technical, economic and welfare outcomes on swine farms.
Our webinar serie is designed to empower you with the knowledge to master it. On Tuesday, November 26, we held the first part.
Episode 1: management of sow dry-off matters!
Weaning piglets induces the sow dry-off.
For the sow, it results in:
- the suppression of lactational anestrus. The reproductive system is in “lactation” mode, which prevents the coming into heat.
- the stimulation of ovarian activity, leading the sow coming into heat a few days later
Sylviane Boulot pointed out that a transient udder inflammation occurred after weaning and mammary glands need one week to recover low temperature. Prolific sows tend to be more sensitive to this udder hyperthermia and long weaning to estrus interval or anestrus can be associated with “warm udders” after dry-off.
Few recent studies on prolific modern sows on mammary involution are available and the impact of their high milk production on udder health may be underestimated.
Sylviane showed data from surveys conducted in French Farms, on sow management around weaning. In addition to good standard practices (feed restriction, early stimulation with boars …), a large proportion of farmers frequently use specific feed supplements at this stage, in association with post-weaning flushing. These nutritional supplements are diverse, with various targets (drying-off, coming into heat, quality of ovulation and embryos, fertility …).
LactoCare helps to:
- speed up milk production decrease at dry-off
- reduce udder tissue damages
which are risk factors of late estrus or anestrus.
The administration of LactoCare makes management easier for farmers. Organization is simplified thanks to grouped insemination and later by grouped farrowing.
The farmer can better concentrate if the insemination period is short. He increases his chances of inseminating at the right time.
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