Product

Health & Treatment Sow & Breeding Grow-Finish Labor & HR Movement & Compliance Financial Operations Hub

Solutions

Farrow-to-finish Sow units Nurseries & finishers Multi-site operators Production managers Owners & CFOs HR teams (TFW)
Pricing Resources Log in Book a demo

Module

Sow & Breeding

The breeding-herd record, built for swine. Track every sow from service to wean, log heat, mating, and farrowing the day they happen, develop gilts on backfat, cull with reason codes, and benchmark your reproductive numbers against where they should be — without a month-end spreadsheet rebuild.

Book a demo See all modules
app.swineops.com — Sow & Breeding

What it does

Breeding & farrowing

  • Sow cards with full parity history, service, and farrowing timeline
  • Heat detection and mating events with wean-to-service interval tracking
  • Pregnancy checks and return-to-estrus flagging
  • Farrowing records — born alive, stillborn, and mummies, with litter detail

Gilt development & culling

  • Gilt Development Unit (GDU) tracking from entry to first service
  • Backfat-scan and weight checkpoints recorded through gilt development
  • Sow culling and mortality with reason codes and parity at removal
  • Replacement-rate and inventory-flow visibility

Benchmarks & analysis

  • Reproductive benchmarks — farm-vs-self trends and farm-vs-peer comparison
  • Born-alive and pre-wean mortality broken out, never blended
  • Configurable KPI thresholds with alerts when a number drifts off target

Sensor integration

  • Nedap (PigInsight) integration — automated sow weights and daily feed intake
  • Weekly weight curves graded against genetic-line targets, parity by parity
  • Feed adjustments written back to the electronic sow feeders where connected

Body condition & feed

  • Body-condition monitoring from weight, with sows flagged when they drift out of band
  • Ration alterations tracked per gestation cycle as an append-only history
  • Feed curves by stage and parity, uploaded from a spreadsheet or built in-app

How it works

  1. 1

    Record service

    Log the mating event and boar/AI source; the sow card opens the breeding cycle.

  2. 2

    Track returns

    Sows that return to estrus surface automatically for re-service once a preg-check result comes in.

  3. 3

    Track to farrow

    Capture the farrowing — born alive, stillborn, mummies — and the litter starts its lot.

  4. 4

    Wean & benchmark

    As wean events come in, pigs weaned per sow per year updates against your target.

KPIs this module tracks

Farrowing rateBorn alive per litterPre-wean mortalityPigs weaned per sow per yearWean-to-service intervalConception / return rateReplacement rateAverage parity

How it connects

Sow & Breeding is the front of the lifecycle. Wean events hand pigs to the lots that Grow-Finish feeds and tracks; culls and mortalities flow into Financial as inventory changes; and every KPI breach — a farrowing rate or pre-wean mortality drifting off target — is one of the signals the Operations Hub surfaces to the right manager.

Sow & Breeding replaces the binder of sow cards and the spreadsheet someone rebuilds every month. Because heat and mating, farrowing, gilt development, and culling all live in one record, the numbers that drive the herd — farrowing rate, born alive, pigs weaned per sow per year — are current the moment the barn logs an event, not three weeks later.

Frequently asked

Does it track born alive separately from total born?
Yes. Farrowing records capture born alive, stillborn, and mummified separately, so your born-alive average and pre-wean mortality are accurate rather than blended.
Can we develop gilts on backfat?
Yes. Gilt development tracks entry, weight, and backfat-scan checkpoints through to first service, so a group's condition is visible before the gilts are bred.
How are reproductive benchmarks calculated?
SwineOps benchmarks each farm against its own trailing performance and against the other farms in your organization, so you see both "where we were last quarter" and "where our best barns are."
Can barn staff record farrowings and matings on a phone?
Yes. Farrowing, heat, mating, and culling all record on a phone in the barn and update the sow card and your KPIs as the events are logged.
Does it connect to our Nedap electronic sow feeders?
Yes. SwineOps pulls sow weights and daily feed intake from Nedap/PigInsight, grades the weight curves against genetic-line targets by parity, and — where connected — writes feed adjustments back to the feeders.
How does body-condition monitoring work without hand-scoring every sow?
It's derived from the sow's weight against the target for her parity and stage, so a sow that drifts out of band is flagged automatically, and any ration change is kept as a per-cycle history.

See Sow & Breeding on your operation.

20 minutes, tailored to how you run.

Book a demo