The Guilty Gilt Guide was written with a clear objective – to maximize the whole-herd performance of pig populations by helping gilts to reach their full reproductive potential and produce healthy pigs that reach their full genetic potential during grow-finish.
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Gilt are the cornerstone of breeding farms. Unhealthy gilts, or gilts lacking proper herd immunity to endemic pathogens will result in sub-optimum reproductive performance. Also, it is well documented that the grow-finish growth performance and survivability are strongly correlated with the gilt and breeding herd health status.
In other words, poorly acclimated gilts will result, sooner (breeding herd) or later (grow-finish) in poor herd performance.