April 17, 2008

Hypor reports first piglets born in China

The Shandong Hypor Liuhe Breeding Farm team announced its first farrowing which was right on schedule on April 10.

The anticipated Large White litter numbered 17 born, with 15 born alive, exceeding expectations for a gilt litter.

Farm manager Zhang Wenbo and nursery manager Wang Xingjun were impressed with the genetic performance for litter size and viability.

The piglets signal the full start of Hypor-Liuhe Group joint venture in the growing pork production industry in China.

The Shandong Hypor Liuhe Breeding Farm started to operate in October 2007, when the farm was populated with 820 purebred Large White, Landrace and Duroc gilts and boars, shipped from Hypor's high-health nucleus farms in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The production start-up had been a huge success with breeding conception rates. With the farrowing, the farm moves into full production.