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Mark Knauer

Mark Knauer

Dr. Mark Knauer is a Professor and Extension Swine Specialist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Aug 11, 2026

6:20
So what led you to look into this?
6:23
Well, so we've been running pretty hard, I would say the last eight months.
6:28
About a year ago, we went out and we, I wanted to look at farrowing duration some more, right? Because that's where we're losing a lot of sows in that early part of farrowing.
6:39
So if we can reduce farrowing duration, can we reduce the number of stillborn piglets? Can we enhance sow livability? Really, we were probably, when we started out, we were more focused on reducing the number of stillborn piglets.
6:51
So in some past studies, we thought we saw some stuff with some calcium.
6:55
We looked at calcium chloride.
6:57
That seems to work pretty well.
11:28
And then what about any more look into, you know, a different way injectable in terms of vitamins or water?

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