As anybody who has ever raised hogs knows, sometimes you lose some pigs. It’s a fact of life in the business, and while sometimes the reason for losses are obvious, many times you just don’t know and just write it off to things happen.

But what if you could find out more about why you lost that pig so you could avoid losing more. That’s where PIC‘s Necropsy Audits come in.

During the PIC seminar this past week in Danville, Indiana, Dr. Amanda Ness, a health assurance veterinarian with PIC, talked about how examining lost pigs can help prevent further losses.

“We go through and necropsy every single dead pig in a system for a specific period of time,” she said. Then, they take take all that information and put it in their database and come back with information and recommendations producers can discuss with their veterinarians. She says early pig care seems to be the biggest cause of pig loss.

She says this necropsy audit is just part of the overall PIC package that managers receive to better manage their herds. “It’s just another customer service we offer to try make our customers as profitable as possible.”

You can read more about the PIC system here. And you can hear my entire conversation with Amanda here: