Overall piglet mortality was 23.1%. The underlying mortality causes varied from 2.2 (miscellaneous) to 11.5% (stillborn) of all born piglets (Table 3). Among all dead piglets, 50.0% were stillborn, 18.3% were crushed by the sow, 11.7% died due to starvation, 10.3% were weak at birth, and 9.7% died of miscellaneous causes.