Lactation

• Capabilities for 2-6 dietary treatments

• Sow weights into and out of farrowing

• Post-farrow weights if necessary (utilize prediction equations established for our genetics)

• Individual piglet birth weights

• Individual piglet wean weights

• Litter birth weights

• Litter wean weights

• Additional litter weights during lactation as necessary

• Individual sow feed disappearance

• Fecal collections

 

Gestation

• Capabilities for 2 dietary treatments

• Sow weights

• Individual sow feed disappearance

• Fecal samples  

 

Gilt Development

• 2 dietary treatments

• Pen feed disappearance

• Gilt weights

• Pen is experimental unit

 

Extras

• Suggested minimum of 150 sows/treatment 

• RFID tags for piglets at weaning

• Blood collection

• Breed to finish trials

1. Two off-site 2,500 head wean-finish barns in central Iowa