What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Hyperprolificacy – defusing the ticking time-bomb, part II

By John Gadd Continuing the military analogy of last month’s column, where I described the first trigger to be defused in helping the modern hyperprolific gilts to raise a numerous and heavy first litter, we now come to what is often found in such devices – the second trigger to catch the unwary – the hidden booby trap. This does catch a lot of producers unawares. This is the short productive life which results from inadequate management and feeding of the gilt to first servi