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With focus on different housing solutions for the gestation unit, Jyden Bur has dedicated manpower to development – not only to meet the 2013 EU-requirements, but also to establish and ensure a cost-effective solution for the farmer.

Company Pledges to Use 100 percent Cage-Free Eggs by 2017 and Eliminate Gestation Crates for Breeding Pigs.

With confidence returning to the Scottish pig industry, an Aberdeenshire pig farmer has invested £50,000 in new solid-floored straw-based finishing house to produce 1,000 plus pigs a year at Kingshornie, Inverbervie.

It is important to position thermometers in a representative area of the house. Passageways under air inlets may not reflect temperatures experienced at pig level.

Sub-zero conditions last winter caused huge problems for pig farmers due to drinking systems freezing up, particularly in straw-based housing.

He points out that it is also important to ensure the weaned sow and service area is well lit, i.e. to an intensity of at least 200 lux and on a 16-hour light, 8-hour dark pattern.

Staffordshire-based ARM Buildings have taken over the sole UK distributorship for the popular Osborne Big Wheel range of pig feeders, following the retirement of Terry Cross, who previously distributed these feeders.

“Participation from Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands and North America in particular is conspicuously higher than it was in 2009.”

The AC3010 4-Way Attic Inlet is the third generation of ceiling inlets from Double L and has actually exceeded expectations. This new machine actuated inlet corrects air distribution shortcomings and offers controlled 360 degree airflow.

An East Anglian contractor has come up with a system that can literally smooth out potential areas of conflict between outdoor pig-keepers and arable farmers. While they tick all the welfare boxes, free-range sows are no respecters of the land. Their rooting and wallowing can leave paddocks looking like battle fields, with crater-like holes pitting the surface.

JYGA Technologies is proud to release its new website: www.jygatech.com. Not only does this new website provide a lot more precise information about our product, the Gestal system, but it will allow us to share with producers our knowledge and expertise in lactating sow feeding strategies.

The long cold spell has loosened rust and scale from inside water pipes on many pig units.

Pig farmers are purchasing record quantities of Paneltim, the plastic building panel, reports Suffolk-based equipment company, G E Baker Ltd. The company, which also trades under the Quality Equipment name, has been distributing the product in the UK for 14 years.

Two new models have been added to the extensive range of pig feeders supplied by Suffolk manufacturing company, G E Baker Ltd, which trades as Quality Equipment.

ARM Buildings of Rugeley, Staffordshire is taking over the joint UK distribution of Paneltim panels from TFS Limited of Cottesmore, Rutland, following the retirement of Jeremy Skipper, TFS’s founder.

Despite the recent arctic conditions Staffordshire-based ARM Buildings has been able to continue with the majority of their contracts for new piggeries throughout the UK, reports the company.