Sow unit operators
Every sow card, current, on a phone in the barn.
Farrowing, mating, and gilt development entered where the work happens — with reproductive KPIs that update as you go.
Your day looks like this
Paper cards, transcribed later
Events get scribbled on a card and keyed in days later, so the numbers lag the barn.
Gilt development is informal
Backfat and weight targets live in someone's head instead of a tracked development curve.
KPIs only at month-end
Farrowing rate and pigs weaned per sow per year aren't known until the report is built.
How SwineOps helps
Capture at the crate
Farrowing, heat, and mating go in on a phone — offline — and sync when you're back in range.
Develop gilts on backfat
GDU tracking with backfat checkpoints flags gilts off-pace before first service.
Live reproductive KPIs
Born alive, farrowing rate, and wean-to-service interval update as events are logged.
Culling with reasons
Removals are reason-coded with parity, so turnover and replacement rate are real numbers.
The PigKnows report, with your targets on it
The full KPI report at parity and a 52-week Production Charts PDF, emailed weekly to the people each farm names.
Closed-loop Nedap feeding
Sow weights and intake come in from the feeders; feed curves and weight-condition scores go back out on a weekly slot.
A week in the life
A sow unit produces one product — weaned pigs — and the numbers that drive it are reproductive. SwineOps puts the sow card on the phone at the crate, so the farrowing you record this morning updates born alive and pre-wean mortality immediately, and the gilt that’s behind on backfat is flagged before she’s bred rather than after she underperforms. Wean-to-service interval, farrowing rate, and pigs weaned per sow per year are live, not month-end.
Modules that matter most
Sow cards, heat & mating, farrowing, gilt development, PigKnows-grade reporting, and Nedap closed-loop feeding.
Timeclock, scheduling, time off, the chore board, LMIA tracking, and full TFW compliance.
Build the board your operation actually watches — then hang it on the wall.