What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Defusing the hyperprolificacy timebomb (part 3)

30-12-2010 | |
What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Defusing the hyperprolificacy timebomb (part 3)
My last two articles covered what we need to do to ‘set up’ the gilt and then the young sow to produce the huge litters which modern genetics – and your undoubted skill – has made it happen. Good for all of us – we have the groundwork laid out to achieve these massive litters. Now we must defend her from the depredations of all this hyperprolificacy and not become the victims of our own success by ending up with what I’ve called ‘the Shattered Sow Syndrome’ wi


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