How routines can help to get to 32 piglets/sow/year

Danish Karina Mikkelsen has very steady routines in her farrowing unit leading to excellent breeding figures. She informed the audience at the latest Congress for Pig Producers (Svinekongres) in Herning, Denmark, held in October 2011. Her message: If a producer looks well after the sows, the sows will take good care of their piglets.     Karina Mikkelsen is responsible for the farrowing unit at pig farm Thaysen & Lyck near Odense, Denmark – and she is doing very well. The h