The increasing demand for sustainable livestock products also demands new
considerations in animal breeding. Breeding programs are now seeking to integrate animal …

Simple Summary Weaning is an important period for the swine industry and is influenced by
the early events that occur during gestation and lactation. Therefore, a range of dietary and …

Simple Summary In the swine industry, sows are selectively bred for larger litters so,
theoretically, more pigs can be sold per year. As producers continue to increase the number …

Litter size in modern sows has been dramatically improved in recent decades by genetic
selection for highly prolific sows. In a tropical environment, the average total number of pigs …

Highlights•Deep learning-based method is applied to segment sows from video
images.•Spatial and temporal features designed to describe nursing.•Method independent …

Diets offered to lactating and weaned piglets are the most expensive diets within pig
production; however, the effect of these diets on lifetime pig performance is inconsistent. The …

Sows are strongly driven to build a nest prior to farrowing, and the performance of this
behaviour is linked to the environment in which the animal is housed. The aim of this study …

Simple Summary Smaller than average sized pigs requiring extra time to reach target
slaughter weight are often referred to as slow growing pigs. This subset of pigs poses a …

This study aims to develop a method to automatically recognize nursing behaviors of sow in
videos by exploiting the spatio-temporal relations. The method firstly detected spatio …

Objective The present study was performed to determine risk factors associated with the
frequency of farrowing assistance in hyperprolific sows in a tropical environment and to …