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In this section, farmers and veterinarians give us practical tips on pig production, simple ideas based on their daily experience, that they have implemented on their farms and aim to facilitate work or improve the performance of farms The day to day life on a pig farm presents plenty of situations to which the farmers can apply their ingenuity in order to find practical solutions. Despite being responses to specific problems in a farm, we believe that sharing this knowledge can be useful to other pig farms. Here you will learn tips on data management of the farm, on the management of newborn piglets, on how to manage the space in the pen, on farm cleanliness, on artificial insemination, on gilt management, etc.
In all cases simple materials are used, such as those often present on the farm or ones you can buy at any hardware store for little money. This is by no means meant to turn our farm into a showcase of technological gadgets but to solve small problems or optimize routine farm processes. Often it is simply a change of habits in some specific management techniques.
The first article presented is "Time delay valves for a maximum consumption of water in the farrowing quarters," which discusses how they have managed to try to maximize water use in the farrowing pen.
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