Understanding the Sow Card
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Modified on: Mon, 7 Apr, 2025 at 10:26 AM
For better understanding, we will separate sow card into 4 parts, Header, General performance, Timeline and History.
Sow profile is displayed on the header
Type of Animal
Gilt
Sow
Status
Below the animal type, you can see the female cycle and number of matings. If it is a gilt, you can see the amount of registered heats.
The background color shows the animal cycle.
Grey - cycle 0
Green - cycles one to three
Yellow - cycles four and five
Orange - cycles six and seven
Red cycle eight or higher
After that you can check the reproductive status
Location: informed in the last data entry
Date of birth:
Entry date::
Age at first mating
Genetic
Supplier:
Tags: All tags associated with the sow must be displayed;
PSY - Must show the average of piglets that were weaned by the sow in the year.
Below the target
Above the target
FSY - Must show the average number of farrowing of the sow in the year
Below the target
Above the target
NON PRODUCTIVE DAYS - It must show the average non-productive days of the sow at the farm.
Above the target
Below the target
GESTATION LENGTH - It should show the average gestation length of the sow at the farm.
Above the target
Below the target
WEANING AGE OF PIGLET - It should show the average lactation days of the sow at the farm.
Above the target
Below the target
TOTAL BORN - Must show the average number of total births performed by the sow at the farm
Below the target
Above the target
LIVEBORN - It should show the average number of piglets born alive from the births performed by the sow at the farm.
Below the target
Above the target
WEANED - It should show the average number of piglets weaned from the sow at the farm
Below the target
Above the target
BIRTH WEIGHT - It must show the average birth weight of the piglets in performed by the sow at the farm.
Below the target
Above the target
WEANING WEIGHT - It must show the average weight of the piglets weaned by the sow at the farm
Below the target
Above the target
IBWM - It should show the average interval between weaning and breeding (WBI) performed by the sow at the farm.
Above the target
Below the target
STILLBORN - It should show the average percentage of stillborn piglets performed by the sow at the farm.
Above the target
Below the target
MUMMIFIED - It should show the average percentage of mummified piglets performed by the sow at the farm.
Above the target
Below the target
MORTALITY - It must show the percentage of the piglet mortality at the farm.
Above the target
Below the target
3 - Timeline
The purpose of the timeline is to represent all events that occurred with the sow on the farm, in a chronological order. Each female's reproductive cycle on the farm must represent in a line.
Productive events - containing name and date. (mating, farrowing, weaning)
Non-productive events - Containing event name and date. (heat identification, skipping heat)
End of cycle - start a new cycle on the top line.
End of the sow's life at the farm
Symbols for future events (projection)
After representing all the registered events for the female in the farm in use, the next events that should occur in the future with the sow must be projected.
Productive events - containing name and date. (mating, farrowing, weaning)
Non-productive events - Containing event name and date
Gray - represents the event that is within the expected behavior / goal.
Red – represents event that generats productive loss, and is outside the expected behavior / goal.
4 - History
It contains a list of events registered for the sow.Those events are organized from the newest to the oldest. Only the last sow event can be edited or deleted.
Edit the last event of the sow
Delete the last event of the sow
FORMULAS USED IN THE SOW CARD
For more information about each index and also how they are calculated, check out the list below:
✔️ PSY
Calculates the average number of weaned pig per female per year. For more formula information, CLICK HERE
✔️ FSY
Calculates the average number of farrowingper female per year. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ NON PRODUCTIVE DAYS
Average non-productive days of the sow on the farm. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ GESTATION LENGHT
Average gestation days of the sow on the farm. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ WEANING AGE OF PIGLET
Average lactation days of the sow in the farm. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ TOTAL BORN
Average total births of the sow in the farm. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ TOTAL LIVEBORN
Average live births of the sow in the farm. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ WEANED
Average number of weanings in the farm. This average is only calculated if there was a total wean in the period. If you only had partial weanings in the period it will not be calculated. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ BIRTH WEIGHT
Calculate the average birth weight. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ WEANING WEIGHT
Calculates the average weaning weight of piglets. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ IBWM
Average days of interval between weaning and mating. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ STILLBORN
Calculates the % of stillborn piglets that took place in the farrowing period. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ MUMMIFIED
Calculate the % of mummified piglets that took place in the farrowing period. For more information on the formula, CLICK HERE
✔️ MORTALITY
Calculate the % of piglets that died from the sows in the period. For more formula information, CLICK HERE
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