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

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Farrow-to-finish Sow units Nurseries & finishers Multi-site operators Production managers Owners & CFOs HR teams (TFW)
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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.

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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 checkpoints recorded against target development curves
  • 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 against industry ranges
  • Born-alive and pre-wean mortality broken out, never blended
  • Configurable KPI thresholds with alerts when a number drifts off target

How it works

  1. 1

    Record service

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

  2. 2

    Confirm pregnancy

    Enter the preg-check result; returns to estrus surface automatically for re-service.

  3. 3

    Track to farrow

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

  4. 4

    Wean & benchmark

    Record wean counts and weights; 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 targets?
Yes. Gilt development tracks entry, weight, and backfat-scan checkpoints against a target curve, and flags gilts that are off-pace before first service.
How are reproductive benchmarks calculated?
SwineOps benchmarks each farm against its own trailing performance and against industry standard ranges, so you see both "where we were last quarter" and "where the industry is."
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.

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