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Contents

A

Abortion

Adjusted Farrowing Rate (Retrospective)

  • The proportion of breeding females that farrow to a given number of services, excluding those that did not have an opportunity to farrow.
  • Count farrowings in period, then look back and count animals served to farrow.

Adjusted Farrowing Rate (Prospective)

  • The proportion of breeding females that farrow to a given number of services, excluding those that did not have an opportunity to farrow.
  • Count services in period, then look forward and count animals that farrowed, consistent with services.

Admitted

AI Boar ID

  • The ID of a boar or semen dose used for an artificial insemination.

Alt-ID

  • A secondary, permanent identification mark of a breeding female animal or boar.
  • This may be a secondary eartag, tattoo, or ear notch mark.

Amortization

  • The scheduled reduction of a balance in a financial account over a period of time.

Animal Health Expenses

  • Money spent on acquisition and delivery of vaccines, medicines, and veterinary care to animals.

Artificial Insemination

  • The act of placing semen in the reproductive tract of a breeding female by means other than natural service.

Assisted

  • Did a sow receive assistance during farrowing (1=Yes or 2=No)? (Default 2=No).

Avg. Breeding Female Inventory

  • Sum of mated and unmated breeding female days in period divided by total days in period.

Avg. Gestation Length (d)

  • Period of pregnancy or time between the conception service and subsequent farrowing, calculated on a periodic or cohort basis.

Avg. Lactation Length (d)

  • Days between farrowing (parturition) and weaning of breeding females, calculated on a periodic or cohort basis.

Avg. Mated Breeding Female Inventory

Avg. Nonproductive Days / Breeding Female / Yr.

  • Total of nonproductive breeding female days divided by the average breeding female inventory.
  • A nonproductive day is any day on which a breeding female is neither gestating nor lactating.

Avg. Parity of Beginning Breeding Female Inventory

Avg. Parity of Ending Breeding Female Inventory

Avg. Unmated Breeding Female Inventory

Avg. Weaning Age (d)

Avg. Weaning To First Service Interval(d)

Avg. Weaning Wgt. / Pig (lb or kg)

B

Barrow

  • A castrated male pig.

Base Mix

  • A uniform mixture of macro-minerals, micro-minerals, vitamins and carrier blended together in one product and mixed with energy and protein sources to make up a complete feed.

Base Price

  • Price received for the sale of pigs before net adjustments, discounts, and sort adjustment.

Batch ID

Birth Date

Birth Litter

  • Total born pigs produced by one breeding female at one farrowing.

Beginning Breeding Female Inventory

Boar

  • A male pig used for any breeding purpose.

Boar ID

Born Alive

Breeding Female

  • An unmated or mated female pig kept for breeding purposes.

Breeding Female Culling Rate

  • The rate at which breeding females have been culled (removed, sold, or transferred out) from the breeding production stage, expressed on an annualized basis.

Breeding Female Day

  • One live breeding female for one day.
  • Note: for day to be counted, animal must be present in the herd at the end of the day.

Breeding Female Entry Rate

  • The rate at which breeding females are added to the breeding herd, expressed on an annualized basis.

Breeding Female Inventory

Breeding Female Mortality Rate

  • The rate at which breeding females have died in the breeding production stage, expressed on an annualized basis.

Breeding Female Removal Rate

  • The rate at which breeding females have been removed from the breeding production stage, expressed on an annualized basis.
  • Note: Removals include sales, deaths, and transfers out of the breeding herd.
  • Note: Removal Rate = (Culling Rate + Mortality Rate)

C

Capital Assets

  • The non-current, tangible assets owned by a business or person.

Complete Feed

  • A diet in which all feedstuffs are blended into a single mixture.

Cost

  • An amount, generally expressed in currency, necessary for the acquisition or to the production of a good or service.

Creep Feed

  • Feed offered to preweaned pigs.

Cross Fostering

  • The transfer of preweaned pigs (piglets) among litters.

Current Parity

Current Status

  • The most recent reproductive status of a breeding animal, according to the sequence of events in its Animal History.

D

Dam

  • The biological female parent of a pig or a litter.

Department

  • A management sub-division of the business entity.
  • A department may be a cost center, a production stage, or a building.
  • Departments must be set up in SwineBooks Pro before production or financial entries can be made.

E

(Herd) Entry Date

Event Date

  • The date on which an event occurred.

Expense

  • An expenditure of money.

F

Failed-To-Farrow

Farrow Date

  • The date on which the first pig of a birth litter was born.

Farrow Day

  • The day of the week for a farrow event date.

Farrow Month

  • The month of the year for a farrow event date.

Farrow Type

Farrowing

  • Birth of a litter of one or more liveborn, stillborn, or mummified pigs on or after the 105th day of pregnancy.

Farrowing Crate

  • A pen that restricts the movement of a sow during farrowing and lactating so that it does not lay on its piglets.

Farrowing Crate Day

  • One day spent in a farrowing crate by a lactating sow.

Farrowing Crate Utilization Rate

  • The ratio of lactation days to farrowing crate days in a period.

Farrowing Rate (Prospective)

  • The proportion of breeding females that farrow from a cohort of breeding females served.

Farrowing Rate (Retrospective)

Foster Off

  • Removal of preweaned pigs (piglets) from a birth litter.
  • Note: Piglets that are Fostered OFF must also be Fostered ON to another litter.

Foster On

  • Introduction of preweaned pigs (piglets) to a litter.
  • Note: Piglets that are Fostered ON must also have been Fostered OFF their birth litters.

Fostering

  • The transfer of preweaned pigs (piglets) from one litter to another.

Found-Not-Pregnant

G

Genetic Line

  • The secondary biographical identifier indicating the breed or source of an animal.

Genetics

  • The primary biographical identifier indicating the breed or source of an animal.

Gestating

Gilt

Gilt Pool

  • The inventory of unmated breeding females that are eligible for mating.

Growth Promotants

  • Non-nutritive substances added to pig diets for the purpose of improving feed conversion and increasing growth rate.

H

Heat Period

  • A period of sexual receptivity of a breeding female to the boar.

Heat Skip

Heat-No-Service

I

ID

  • The primary, permanent identification mark of a breeding female animal or boar.
  • This may be an eartag, tattoo, or ear notch mark.

Income Statement

  • A financial report of revenues, expenses and net income (or loss) for a specified period of time.

Insemination

Insurance Claims Income

  • Cash received when an entity incurs a loss for an insured asset that will not be replaced.

Insurance Expenses

  • Money paid as insurance premiums.
  • Examples: automobile, liability, livestock, and property insurance premiums.

Intact Pig

  • A male pig that has not been castrated and is not intended for breeding purposes.

Interest Expense

  • Money paid for the use of borrowed money.

Interest Income

  • Money earned for the use of loaned or invested money.

Inventory

  • Assets which are:
  1. held for sale in the ordinary course of business;
  2. in the process of production for eventual sale; or,
  3. to be directly used or consumed in the production of goods or services for ultimate sale.

L

Lactation

Lactating

Litter Birth Weight

Litters Farrowed / Breeding Female / Yr.

Litters Farrowed / Mated Breeding Female / Yr.

Live Born Pigs

Live Born Pigs / Birth Litter

M

Mated Breeding Female

% Mated Breeding Females

Mated Breeding Female Day

Maternal Grand Dam

  • The mother of the biological female parent of a pig or a litter.

Maternal Grand Sire

  • The father of the biological female parent of a pig or a litter.

Mating

  • A single insemination of a breeding female.
  • Note: One or more matings in the same estrus period comprises a SERVICE.

Mating Comment

Mating Dose ID

  • The ID associated with a dose of semen used in a mating.

Mating Group

Mating Index

  • Enter a number in the range: {1 (worst) … 3 (average) … 5 (best)} to indicate the quality of each mating.
  • Alternatively you can use the index field to enter anything you wish to record then report using Database Power Tools.

Mating Priority

  • Determines the date of the mating from which the due-to-farrow date is calculated.
  • If no priority cell is checked, then the first mating is the priority mating.

Mating Semen Age

  • The age (in days) for the dose of semen used in a mating.

Mating Technician

Mating Time

  • Enter the time of day each mating event.
  • If all other data (Boar ID, Technician, etc) are the same, a single data entry line can be used to enter two matings with different times on the same day.

Mummies

  • Pigs that are born degenerate (discolored, disfigured, or decomposed), that died sometime during gestation.

N

Natural Service

Net Fostered

NonProductive Day

Not-In-Pig

Nurse Litter

Nurse Off

  • The NURSE OFF event may be used when ALL a lactating sow's pigs are taken off on the same day to be suckled by other sows and/or placed in a Supplement Station, and this sow is then WEANED.
  • In SwineBooks, a NURSE OFF event is recorded in a WEAN event (Wean Type = '2 - Nursed Off'.)

Nurse On

Nurse Sow

  • A lactating breeding female which, having had all or part of its own litter weaned, suckles piglets farrowed by other breeding females.

O

Open

  • Not pregnant.

Origin

  • The place where an individual pig or group of pigs came from.
  • The origin from outside the farm could be a genetics company in the case of a breeding female or boar, or a feeder pig supplier in the case of a group of purchased pigs.

P

Parity

Paternal Grand Dam

  • The mother of the biological male parent of a pig or a litter.

Paternal Grand Sire

  • The father of the biological male parent of a pig or a litter.

Pig Day

  • Each pig present in the record system at the end of each calendar day contributes one pig day.

Piglets

Preweaned Pigs

Preweaning Mortality Rate (Cohort) (%)

  • Pigs that die between live birth and weaning expressed as a percentage of those at risk.
  • Calculation based on a cohort of sows farrowed and weaned.

Preweaning Mortality Rate (Time Period) (%)

  • Pigs that die between live birth and weaning expressed as a percentage of those at risk.

Productive Day

Prospective Breeding Female

  • A female pig which is kept for the purpose of future entry into the breeding herd.

R

Removed

Removed Breeding Female

  • A breeding female that is no longer consuming assets or resources of the breeding herd.

Repeat Service Rate (Cohort) (%)

Repeat Service Rate (Time Period) (%)

Repro Findings

Retained Pigs

Revenue

S

Serve Day

  • The day of the week for a mating event date that coresponds to a service date.

Serve Month

Service

Service Back Fat

Service Body Score

Service Group

Ship Date

Ship Event

Shipped

Sire

Sow ID

Speed Entry

Status

Sticky Note

Stillborn Pigs

Stillborn Rate (%)

Suckling

Supplement Station

Supplies Expense

T

Tattoo ID

Total Born Pigs / Birth Litter

Total Weaned Pigs / Wean Litter

U

Unmated Breeding Female

Unmated Breeding Female Day

Utilities Expense

W

Wean Day

Wean Litter

Weaned

Weaned Pigs / Birth Litter

Weaned Pigs / Breeding Female / Yr.

  • The average number of weaned pigs produced per average breeding female, expressed on an annualized basis.

Weaned Pigs / Mated Breeding Female / Yr.

Weaning To First Service Interval

  • Days between date of weaning and date of next service.
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