- Food gilt on atleast 3 kg of sow and weaner meal daily
- Provide clean drinking water
- Vaccinate the gilt to control common diseases
- Control external parasites by dusting with pesticides
- Treat gilt of sick
- House the gilt next to a boar at age of 12 months
- Ready to be served/ serve it at right age and weight
- Keep the pen clean by maintaining clean litter
- Flush gilt 3-4 weeks before service by feed on high quality diet
- Take gilt to the boars pen for service and let it stay for at least 12 hours.
- Observe the return to heat, if any, after three weeks, and repeat the service if necessary.
- Steaming up should start 1 ½ months before farrowing by giving 3-4 kg of feed
- 7-10 days before farrowing, the gilt should be washed and moved into a clean and disinfected farrowing pen.
- Sow and weaner meal should be reduced three days before farrowing
- Observe the signs of farrowing, and supervise the farrowing process.
- Deworm the gilt 7-10 days before farrowing.
Kavungya answered the question on March 28, 2019 at 08:11
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