Pig Gestation Management: From Confirmed Pregnancy to the Farrowing Move
Pig gestation management is the set of decisions that protect a pregnancy from breeding until the sow moves to the farrowing room: what to keep away from her early, how to house and feed her alongside other sows, how to hold her condition, and when to…
Pregnancy Diagnosis in Sows: Methods, Timing and Accuracy
Pregnancy diagnosis in sows is the process of confirming, as early and as reliably as possible, whether a mated female is carrying a litter — and the decision that matters most is not which machine to buy but when to look. The same ultrasound scanner is…
Pig Heat Cycle: Stages, Signs and Breeding Window
The pig heat cycle is the repeating reproductive rhythm that decides when a gilt or sow can conceive, and reading it correctly is the single skill that separates a breeding herd that stays on schedule from one that drifts. Most missed matings on U.S.…
Pig Artificial Insemination: Timing, Technique, and Where It Fails
Pig artificial insemination is the practice of depositing boar semen in the female’s reproductive tract by hand rather than through natural mating, and it is the dominant breeding method on U.S. commercial farms. Most failures trace to three things…
Commercial Pig Breeding Cycle: Days, Intervals, and Where Schedules Slip
The commercial pig breeding cycle is a repeating sequence of four intervals—service, gestation, lactation, and return to estrus—and the length of that sequence, not the size of any single litter, determines how many pigs a sow farm produces in a year.…
Pig Breeding Reproduction: Farrowing, Genetics & AI Guide (2026)
TL;DR – Executive Summary Introduction to Pig Breeding Reproduction Pig breeding and reproduction encompass all practices involved in mating pigs, managing pregnancy, and raising healthy litters—from selecting breeding stock to weaning piglets. For…