How to manage facility maintenance on sow farms?
Scheduling certain tasks, monitoring spare parts stock, checking electrical elements - what does proper maintenance management consist of?
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Visit to the IFIP-Institut du Porc experimental swine station
Since 1998, IFIP has had an experimental farm located in Romillé, Brittany, France, which allows them to run all types of trials at all stages of production.
Tip: A better straw dispenser for pigs
Straw is the best enrichment material to meet pigs' needs. How can we provide it?
Pedregales farm: Innovating to face challenges in the swine industry
What can we do to face the challenges in the industry? Innovate, research, and bring science closer to the field.
Tip: Convert a liquid feeder to a dry feeder
The farmer decided to use a facility that was previously used for finishing pigs for the final growth phase of gilts. He adapted the liquid feeders to be able to feed dry feed semi-ad libitum.
Machine learning algorithms can predict tail biting outbreaks in pigs using feeding behaviour record
Machine learning models can be considered for implementation into automatic feeder systems for real-time prediction of tail biting events.
La Almenara farm: Porc d’Or Special Award from the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture 2022
This award recognizes farms that excel in the areas of quality, biosecurity, health, animal welfare, and reducing environmental impact.
Increased feed conversion ratio with stable mortality and growth
What can cause an increase in the feed conversion ratio of pigs without altering mortality or average daily gain?
Troubleshooting problems with the feed conversion ratio: Management
Which management factors can affect the feed conversion ratio? Enric Marco covers how all-in all-out, density, trough space, and filling and emptying of barns can lose us money.
WEDA EuroTier Novelty 2022: Water dosing Aqua.Plus
Simple porridge feeding for sows
Clean piglet feeders more efficiently with this tip
A simple piece of hardware could protect your piglet feeders from damage and save you time when cleaning.
Quality Equipment: New solar powered feeder for outdoor pig producers
Outdoor pig producers can now reap the benefits of the well-proven Transition Feeder with a new, no-fuss solar powered model.
PigEasy unveils the next leap in optimal farrowing feeding: the MealMeter 2.0
MealMeter 2.0 allows producers to track the feed and water consumption of individual sows during farrowing.
Effect of space allowance and mixing on growth performance and body lesions of grow-finish pigs
Mixing had a considerable effect on growth performance and there were a high number of body lesions in the lower space allowance.
Large-group finishing barns with automatic sorting: precision livestock farming is here
The payment this grow out receives for its pigs is about 1.5 cents/kg live weight higher compared to the rest of the finishing farms of the same origin.
Using automatic pig feeding stations to estimate direct and social effects of feeding duration
Visit duration of an animal at the single-space feeder was influenced by both direct and social effects when the replacement time between visits was less than 1 minute.