Page 6 of articles about farrowing room

Wrap the sow's card in a clear plastic bag and write down the data with a thick marker

The goal is to record the sows' feeding level when fed manually.

The goal is to know the production stage of gestating sows in a quick and visual way.

The most productive farms are not always the best. We must also bear in mind the weaned piglet's weight and the sow's feed intake.

The trick consists in selecting the appropriate foster sows and marking them on the back with the maximum number of pigs that they can take care of.

This system does not provide an improvement in the production data, but a saving in energy costs and a better use of the resources in general.

The use of these nests help create two well-differentiated areas: a warmer one for the piglets and a cooler one for the sows.

Different systems allow the sows to eat several times a day. In some of them we are the ones who decide, in other ones it is the sows.

It is very important that all the staff on the farm can know quickly what is going on in the farrowing quarters, because in this way everybody will be able to carry out the daily duties in this area.

It is common to see that there are many farms on which the gestation of the sows entered in the farrowing quarters is not correctly managed. How much space / batch would be losing a farm that enters systematically a 10% of sows / batch one week before than the appropriate date?

There are many home-made options that allow us to carry out this so important technique on our farms.

Knowing how to make the most of space in our farrowing rooms is a key point, not only when using foster sows, but also for increasing the age at weaning. The farrowing pen is the most expensive pen at the farm, and we must obtain the maximum possible efficiency out of it.