Page 4 of articles about ventilation
Alarm warning to pig farmers
It is important that the back-up emergency ventilation system is triggered as soon as the alarm goes off so the mechanism operating the inlets and outlets must be checked.
Spring-time ventilation checks are vital task for pig farmers
Fans should be isolated from the power supply and blades cleaned with water and detergent if necessary — though not with a pressure washer which could damage the electric motor!
Heat Stress Management Strategies on Farm
This article summarizes the main points to beat heat stress in pigs.
Air cleaning technologies for the control of airborne pathogens
The most direct strategy to decrease the concentration in the air of airborne pathogens is dust reduction. This article describes the use of a particle ionization system called EPI.
Improving the environmental conditions in the fattening rooms
Improve the piglets' comfort in the fattening rooms without compromising ventilation by placing an insulating material over the pens.
Finns study finer points of ventilation
How do you ventilate a piggery in a country that can have extremes of temperature ranging from – 30⁰ C to + 30⁰C (-22⁰F–+86⁰F)?
Energy savings using cover-nests in farrowing rooms
The use of these nests help create two well-differentiated areas: a warmer one for the piglets and a cooler one for the sows.
Regulation of the opening of the windows at different levels
It consists in lengthening the towropes of the windows that we want to keep more open.
Use of water micro-sprinklers for cooling the farrowing rooms
Micro-sprinklers were installed above the windows in order to reduce the temperature in the farrowing rooms in summer.
Nests for piglets in the farrowing quarters
The aim of this trick is the improvement of the quality of the environment in the farrowing quarters for the sows as well as for the piglets, saving on energy consumption by means of the manufacturing of nests.
Thermographic diagnosis: Practical tools in the farm
The thermographic cameras can measure the temperature in all the image with resolutions that are equivalent to 19,200 infrared thermometers at the same time.
Filtration systems on commercial sow farms: Technical definitions and application strategies
In high-density swine regions of North America, air filtration is playing an important role in the effort to maintain PRRS free commercial sow herds
Seasonality and mortality at fattening
One could think that the number of deaths increases in the winter in the northern hemisphere because the animals freeze to death.
Fans clean-up sex differences in the pig pen
“The boys are much dirtier than the girls – but since we put in the ventilation both sexes now have clean pens!” That was how Derek Buckmaster summed up the dunging habits of the separate sexes of pigs in his three finishing houses.