The same buildings and genetics give very different results under different teams. Most of the gap is in routine: how often the farrowing house is checked, how a weak piglet is handled, how a sow is fed after farrowing, how a room is cleaned before the next batch. Written procedures and proper training are how good routines survive staff changes, night shifts and busy weeks.
Training and SOPs I cover
- Farrowing. Supervision, piglet care in the first days, cross-fostering and piglet rescue.
- Service and gestation. Heat detection, service routine, gilt management.
- Sow feeding. Body condition and feeding through gestation and lactation.
- Nursery management. Weaning, getting pigs eating and drinking, and the first weeks after weaning.
- Ventilation. Reading the pigs and the room, and setting and checking the system.
- Biosecurity and hygiene. Entry, cleaning, disinfection and downtime between batches.
- Records. What to record, how, and why it matters.
How it is delivered
- I watch the current routines and talk to the team before writing anything.
- SOPs are written for your farm, short and practical, so the team can follow them.
- Training happens in the barn, with the pigs, not only in a meeting room.
- Follow-up checks that the routines are being kept, and adjusts them where they are not working.
Written procedures and training records are also part of what VietGAHP requires, so this work helps a farm prepare for certification.
Results
On a farm I managed, PSY rose to 27.9, up 6.5 pigs per sow in 12 months. On a new farm, one change in the service barn routine took gilt conception from 55% to 100%: read the case study.
Talk to Lee
Tell me about your team and where results are slipping. I will arrange a first call and propose a scope of work before anything is agreed.
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone and WhatsApp: +66 63 012 6353
- Send a message