# Inside the waterlines: Fixing hidden performance robbers in swine barns

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Podcast: [Feedstuffs in Focus](https://stenobird.com/podcast/feedstuffs-in-focus-695079)
Published: 2025-11-13T20:00:00+00:00
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Think water is the simplest input on a swine farm? We open the waterlines and find a living system that can quietly limit growth, blunt medications, and raise mortality if it goes unmanaged. With Dr. Gabi Doughan from Iowa State University, we connect barn-floor realities to lab-backed strategies that turn “clean enough” water into a performance advantage. We walk through a practical roadmap for testing what truly matters at the source and the drinker: pH and hardness that drive mineral scal...

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