Swine - Production Management

This section of the website provides information on Ontario swine production management including feeder management, sow production, finisher production, benchmarking, barn management and animal welfare.

Sow Production

• Pre-Weaning Mortality
• Farrowing Room Sanitation
• Group Housing Systems for Gestating Sows
• Helping High Risk Piglets in the Farrowing Room

Grower Finisher

• Consider All Your Costs When Contract Finishing
• Determining the Size of Finisher Pigs, Replacement Gilts and Sows
• Feeder Management in the Grower-Finisher Barn

Production Systems

• Hog Target Weight Calculator
• Target Weight Calculator for Heavy Hogs
• Fencing for outdoor pig production: protecting your livestock and the environment

Labour Management

• Farming Operations to Come Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act

Welfare

• How to Avoid Production Losses in Swine Due to Heat Stress
• Enrichment for Pigs
• Guidance on Pigs with Hernias
• Fencing for outdoor pig production: protecting your livestock and the environment