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Piglet survival starts before birth. Learn how fetal development, placental function, and gestation management influence birthweight, vigor, and pre-weaning survival.

Learn practical strategies to improve survival of low-birthweight piglets through early identification, colostrum management, warming, and care during the first 72 hours of life.

Practicing seasonal management practices alongside good husbandry can reduce the impact of heat stress on swine herd performance.

Having conversations with experts, your veterinarian, and your customers goes a long way in the world of pork biotechnology.

Good husbandry and managing pig housing can reduce the impact of cold stress on swine herd performance.

What a bargain! The price looks great, but are you really getting a bargain?

Here you will find common techniques producers use to keep their animals healthy and avoid having to treat them.

Tagging pigs for show is a requirement in Pennsylvania and part of good production practices for swine.

Body condition scoring is a useful tool for improving herd productivity. In this video, you will learn to conduct body condition scoring on your sows by learning the hallmark indicators of thin, ideal, and fat sows.

Diseases in your farm animals can have serious consequences for you, your neighbors, and beyond. Learn how you can prevent the spread of animal diseases.

This training is required to become a PDA swine health monitor. Volunteers learn roles and responsibilities, rules and regulations, and common signs of disease.

Automated manure and waste water handling is most often accomplished by collecting and storing manure and waste in storages located directly beneath the animals or in a nearby containment structure.

Beginners in personal meat production and homesteading may be interested in raising swine.

Information on ventilation systems available at Penn State.

Ventilation inlet air speed monitors described here are a cheap and easy way to assess proper ventilation in livestock buildings.

Manure gas deaths keep occurring around the world. What can we do to make manure handling safer?

Properly sized inlets – located to supply uniform distribution throughout the animal space – are essential to provide a more comfortable space for cows and poultry.

Every year, hundreds of accidents occur on the farm whether it's caused by livestock, tractors, machinery, or mistakes.

As a livestock producer, you may be unfamiliar with the processes involved in complete feed manufacturing. To start this conversation, let's first understand the FSMA and what it means for your feed mill to be in compliance with the FDA.

Adjusting growth rate of meat animals (market pigs, lambs, cattle, and goats) is a useful skill for livestock caretakers of all ages.

Understand the reasons for using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to identify swine in commercial herds and show pigs.

Patience and timing will help you maximize the value of manure applied this spring.

Whether you raise pigs, sheep, goats, or cattle, having an emergency plan for their care is critical for animal welfare and business continuity.

Pricing meat for direct-to-consumer sales.

The control of manure odors is an issue of such complexity that it requires a combination of control strategies.