Benchmark Numbers

Enter your key breeding herd figures into the forms below to see how you compare to benchmark numbers.

Gilt Management

Good gilt selection & management to first breeding sets the breeding herd up for maximum reproductive performance.

Check your key gilt management figures:

Replacement rate:

Cycling by 30 weeks:

Mean age at puberty (weeks):

weeks

Mean weight at mating (kg):

Mean mating age (weeks):

weeks

Litter Size

Weaning a large number of heavy piglets in every litter drives performance of the growing herd.

Check your key litter size figures:

Litter size total born:

Litter size born alive:

Stillbirths:

Mummies/litter:

Pre-weaning mortality:

Litter size weaned:

Litters Per Sow Per Year

Maximising the number of litters a sow produces in a year will maximise the number of pigs sold/sow/year. To achieve this we have to minimise the non-productive days (NPDs).

Check your key L/S/Y figures:

Anoestrous (stale) sows:

Weaning-to-mating interval:

days

Adjusted farrowing rate:

Vulval discharge:

Regular Returns:

Irregular Returns:

6 week returns:

Abortions:

Not In Pigs (NIPs):

NPDs/litter: