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Computer Program for Swine Breeding Herd

Management

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Swine breeding herd management

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Principal events and cyclic pattern in sow reproduction

(Plà, 2007)

The system process mimics the managing breeding herd

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Management practicesHealth status & Bio-security control

Genetics Housing design Feed & Feeding

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record keeping tracking data data analysis

Swine breeding herd management software

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Why is it important? The software system has to provide record

keeping, tracking data and data analysis. The indices obtained from data analysis help

inform the farm status thus showing the farm’s viability.

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The elements of the monitoring process The elements of the monitoring process may

be listed as: data recording database data processing report with key indices analysis decision

(Kristensen, et al., 2007).