<t>Give us an update if you would, including breeding dates. What do the sows actually look like? Can you post a pic? This is all starting to sound like a disease issue, false pregnancy, etc.. or a major screw up in breeding dates. Maybe all is well? Let us know. <br/> <br/> BTW, you should have ind...

<r>Many university websites have the basic profiles. I believe KSU would be a good source of info.<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/lvstk2/mf2298.pdf">http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/lvstk2/mf2298.pdf</URL><br/> <br/> Here's a site also:<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.omafra.g...

<t>There are still cattle vets in Colorado, right? Any cattle vet would have lut also. Just start calling until you get someone who will sell it to you. Surely there is a vet somewhere in your state with some common sense. Really doesn't need to be this big of a deal. If the vet you called won't hel...

If you really just wish they would farrow, induce them and get it over with. Whining about it on here isn't going to help anything. You've been helped. Take the advice and take action.

<t>Ok, I'll weigh in.<br/> <br/> If you are 100% positive in your breeding dates, there is NO REASON whatsoever NOT to induce these females to farrow by day 116. Period. Each day you let pass is adding further risk to the equation. Get it over with and get those babies out nursing. There is nothing ...

Me too! darin@limitup.net

<t>Years ago, when we had group-housed sows in large pasture lots, we would sometimes have sows bite the heck out of each others vulvas. I even had sows that had their vulva torn off. Felt sorry for those girls, but they never had any trouble farrowing. Always either AI'ed or hand-mated them though,...

No, not likely.

Yes, and questions are what we do here!

Average time after the first lut. shot is 30 hours. Perineum is the fleshy area between the vulva and anus.

<t>You asked what lutayse does...........<br/> <br/> It does the same thing as in cattle. It is a prostaglandin. It removes the corpus luteum from the ovaries, which is producing progesterone, which builds and maintains the uterine wall, sustaining pregnancy. With the CL gone, progesterone is insuff...

My God! Imagine what would happen if you were to mix it with selenium!!

<t>If you are serious about making good durocs, I would call John Huinker. He most certainly has boars that will add the needed width to your gilt's offspring. He has some of the best (most successful) red hogs in the showpig world and will not steer you wrong. Might want to consider it for your nex...

I for one, would not want to do anything to help boost the ratings of his show (which seems to be his only objective here). I think he is best ignored.........

Nothing wrong with offering consumers plenty of choices and letting them decide what to purchase. Those who choose to believe the fear mongers will have a good alternative that way. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry can go on producing pork based on science rather than emotion.