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The aim of this trick is facilitate the daily tasks in the farrowing quarters during the first days after the farrowing by means of using coloured clothes pegs.
We will use clothes pegs with different colours in the farrowing quarters, so we will use a different colour each day, holding the sow's card in place with the peg. In this way, the colour of the clothes peg will signal us the day of the farrowing of that sow in a very immediate and visual way.
Explanation
I am back to explain you a trick whose basis are its colours, but instead of "one colour per week" we will work with "one colour per day".
The clothes pegs used are carried in a trolley together with part of the daily materials needed
From my viewpoint it is very important that all the staff on the farm is able to know quickly what is going on in the farrowing quarters because, in this way, they will all be able to carry out their daily duties in this area. With this management we will use a clothes peg on the farrowing day, using a different colour each day and considering today as day 0.
Thanks to this management, we will always know quickly how many days ago each of the sows farrowed, and we will be able to carry out, quickly, the duty that corresponds to each of the days after the farrowing.
Normally, 4 different colours are used in order not to complicate things too much, but we can use as many colours as we like. In any case, when we start the cycle again we will first remove the clothes pegs from those sows with the same colour that we have to use that day in order to avoid confusions.
So, if on the farrowing day we use a blue clothes peg and our handling order is blue, red, green and yellow, when we use a green clothes peg, we will know that all those sows with a blue clothes peg farrowed two days ago, so if our duty (or any other task) is to administer iron on day two, we will know quickly which are all the sows and litters that we have to tend to and, more important, all the staff on the farm will also be able to know what is to be done.
The blue clothes peg will signal the farrowing day