Learning Pig Health and Welfare Virtually
Learning what can go wrong on a pig farm and how to cope with outbreaks of sickness is an essential part of production management, writes ThePigSite senior editor, Chris Harris.

Water Supply Systems: Prevention of Contamination and Waste of Drinking Water Supplies: Agricultural Premises
Information for anyone installing, modifying or maintaining plumbing installations on farms in the UK from the Water Regulations Advisory Scheme (WRAS).

Water Supply
Water is essential for nearly all body functions, and even minor dehydration can result in reduced feed intake, lower daily gain, poorer feed conversion, reduced milk production and lower weaning weights. When performance problems are being investigated...

Feed and Water Intake Checklist
Checklists for maximising feed intake and optimising water intake have been prepared by Katie Carr for the Prairie Swine Centre.

Establishing the Weaned Piglet
Establishing piglets early to reduce pen variation is the key message from the BPEX Knowledge Transfer Farm Case Study 5. Successful changes were adjustments to the feeding regime, the addition of bite drinkers and additional lighting.

Optimum Drinker-to-Pigs Ratio in the Nursery
More generous provision of drinkers tended to improve the growth of weaned pigs although the differences were not significant, according to research at Iowa State University reported by JoAnn Alumbaugh of Farms.Com. The work highlighted the need for more...

Salt Poisoning and Water Deprivation
Dehydration is a common sequel to many disease problems and management circumstances. The pig appears to be particularly vulnerable to a form of dehydration that presents as a specific disease entity, which we refer to as salt poisoning or water deprivation,...

Drinker Design - Key To Minimising Waste, But Not Pig Performance
How water, which is now a costly item, as supplied to growing pigs has no effect on their performance but it can make a difference when it comes to waste and slurry volume, writes Stuart Lumb.

Think about drink: Is it draining profit potential
By Jane Jordan, ThePigSite Editor. Measuring water consumption in commercial pig production is a valuable management tool. However, water intake in relation to livestock production, is a relatively unexplored territory. There has been is little academic...

Watering topics - A film in the drinker line
By Luc Ledoux, CID LINES nv - You might be shocked by what is happening inside the pipes bringing water to your pigs. Unseen yet increasing on most units there is a thin film that threatens to give a problem of contamination at the drinker.

Ball bite water drinkers spill less, save more
By Alberta Pork. An Alberta producer has found that big efficiencies can be achieved by making a small change to a barn’s watering program.

Treatment of Drinking Water: An opportunity for better results in Swine Production
By Luc Ledoux, CID LINES nv, Belgium - The importance of good drinking water is often underestimated. Pigs drink more than twice as much as they eat! At weaning, the water / feed ratio is about 4:1. Water will transport the nutrients in the body (and...

Water medication for pigs
By Graeme Taylor, Greg Roese and Chris Brewster and published by NSW Department of Primary Industries - This Primefact examines the use of water medication systems as part of a herd health management program.

Make Sure Pigs Have Enough Water In Summer
By Dr. Todd See, Swine Genetics Specialist, North Carolina State University - Water is not only essential for swine survival, it is also a critical nutrient for growth, maintenance of pregnancy, and weight gain during lactation. In hot weather, the pig’s...

Patterns of Drinking Water Use
By Michael C. Brumm, Extension Swine Specialist, Northeast Research and Extension Center. Nebraska Swine Report 2006 : The amount of drinking water needed daily by the pig depends on numerous influences, including temperature, diet, stage of production...

Managing Manure to Improve Air and Water Quality
By Marcel Aillery, Noel Gollehon, Robert Johansson, Jonathan Kaplan, Nigel Key, and Marc Ribaudo, Economic Research service, USDA - Animal waste from confined animal feeding operations is a potential source of air and water quality degradation from evaporation...

Water Systems for Growing Swine
Abstracted from “Water Systems for Swine” by Mike Brumm, 2005 Pork Academy, Des Moines, Iowa and published by North Carolina State University - Water is the nutrient that swine require in largest quantity, but compared to the other nutrients supplied...

A Checklist for Water Use
By John Patience and Ken Engele, and published by the Prairie Swine Center - Like energy, protein, minerals and vitamins, water is a nutrient that is required in the diet of the pig. Indeed, the pig can survive much longer without these other nutrients...

Tips for saving water
By Lee Whittington and published by the Prairie Swine Center - Water is an essential nutrient in pork production. Research reveals how we can manage this resource for best results and minimal cost.

Tech Talk: Water, water everywhere but is it fit to drink?
By BPEX - Drinking water is one of the most critical areas to get right for successful pig production, but it doesn't always receive the attention it deserves.

Measuring pig metabolism by water consumption and ventilation rate
By Nick Bird for FarmEx - The aim of pig production is to convert a low value product (pig feed) into a high value product (pig meat) as efficiently and cost effectively as possible. This is achieved by pig metabolism, but unlike other production processes...

Water as a Predictor of Tomorrow’s Pig Performance
By Dr. Mike Brumm, Extension Swine Specialist University of Nebraska - With the advent of all-in/all-out pig flows, the swine industry has made great progress at determining overall performance and cost of this performance for nursery, finisher, and wean-to-finish...

Water Intake and Wastage by Grower/finisher Pigs at Nipple Drinkers
By Yuzhi Li and Harold. W. Gonyou for the Prairie Swine Centre - The water intake of pigs is not well known since a large amount of water is wasted from drinkers. A study was conducted to determine water intake and wastage by grower/finisher pigs at nipple...