Milk yield, milk quality and large litters

Pig herd performance has developed rapidly over the last two decades. Today 30 piglets or more weaned per sow per year is not unusual. Is management always well prepared for that and do feeding strategies and feed composition match that level of production. There has not been much interest in the topic ‘condition feeding of sows’ in recent years. Of course, sows are fed more selectively today than ten years ago. But a real condition assessment – i.e. a body condition scoring (BCS) – is