Releasing individual feed dispensers in the gestation quarters
The goal is to be able to make that some individual dispensers do not deliver feed when they are all full
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Training gilts for using ESF with minimum effort
The most difficult thing for sows is learning to open doors. Here we show an easy and practical way to achieve it.
Perstorp now to offer advanced dosing equipment with acid portfolio
Perstorp offers a new solution where a broad range of organic acid based additives can be combined with highly accurate dosing equipment.
Osborne's FAST Start wean-to-finish feeder named Producer Choice at World Pork Expo
Osborne’s new wean-to-finish feeder combines both gravity-flow feeding with Osborne’s no-waste, mechanical-flow feed delivery system, a signature feature of the Big Wheel family of feeders, also offered by Osborne.
Osborne introduces new wean-to-finish feeder
The new FAST Start™ wean-to-finish feeder features all the no-waste, feed saving aspects of the Big Wheel family of mechanical-flow feeders, but operates in gravity-flow mode for newly weaned pigs. The feeder then automatically converts to mechanical-flow as pigs grow.
Placing drinkers near hoppers doubles pigs’ feed intake
The 24-hour-a-day monitoring of feed and water consumption, which can be reviewed live on the farm office computer can pick up trends and has even been used to predict disease outbreaks.
Weaning in open housing, an alternative for the management of a production increase
Open housing allow to increase the actual surface per weaned piglet, thus reducing hierarchy problems, and redefining the dunging, lying and feeding areas.
Strategies to control piglet weight variability in the nursery (2/2): Feeding and feeding troughs
Various strategies are discussed: offering up to 3 different types of feed, budget feeding, density of piglets per feeder space, ...
Plugs in the feed troughs
Make a hole in one of the ends and place a soda vacuum plug so the feed troughs can be cleaned more easily.
Knowing the amount of feed consumed by each sow in farrowing rooms without dispensers
We move a plastic ring along the water drainpipe, leaving it at a series of pre-established marks.
Feeding systems for managing the feed delivery in the farrowing quarters
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.
Avoiding defecations in the liquid feed trough
In order to avoid that the pigs urinate and defecate in the trough we can place approximately a metre of pipe on the floor parallel to the trough and tightened with two clamps.
Feeding during the lactation period: hoppers versus feeders
The hoppers and the feeders will condition our ability for attaining maximum feed consumption.
TOPIGS works with three regions to accommodate growth
TOPIGS has reorganised its worldwide activities into three regions; Europe, the Americas and Asia/Pacific/Africa.
New feeder acts as “extra stockman”
Good design, combined with modern materials which lower cost, are features of a brand new feeder being launched by Quality Equipment at the EuroTier.
Reducing the cost of pig feed (II): feed management
Some tips to reduce feed costs on pig farms.