To record the movement of piglets that occur in the farm there are two ways in S4:


  • Inform the system during the lactation phase, that movement has been made.
  • Inform the system at the time of weaning that the movement has been made to adjust the balance of piglets for each sow.



During the lactation phase:


Management> Farrowing> Data Entry> Fostering Piglet. 





Click on the icon to add a fostering piglet.


It will open a fostering screen to be filled as follows: 


  • Sow's ID: Sow number that is lactating

  • Fostering date.

  • Action: you must choose wheter "foster on" or "foster off". 

  • Second Sow's ID:Secondary ID of sow that is lactating. It's that sow female that receives or donates the piglets.

  • Number of piglets. 



If you work in a farm with genetic control, you can select specific piglets by clicking the icon and click "next".





It will open a new screen to select the specific piglet. You can look for the piglet's ID or just clicking on the box on the left of the ID:




Once you complete simply click on "save and continue" to add more fostering data or click on "save and close" to leave the screen.




On Weaning:


Access  Management > farrowing > Data entry> Weaning.


Click on the icon 'nursing bottle' to add a weaning and a piglets movement.



It will open the weaning screen, there you can also add a piglet movement from one sow to another by filling the following data:  


  • Movement date.

  • Action: foster on or foster off piglets

  • 2nd Sow ID: Secondary sow ID. It's that female that receives or donates the piglets.

  • Quantity. 




Once you are done just click on "save and continue" to add more data data or click on "save and close" to leave the screen.