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Research Paper On Pigs

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From updated Pigknows reports we saw that for the 26 weeks completed thus far this year, you are at 112% of your weaned pig target. You’re at 100% of your efficiency goal and, 99% of your quality goal giving your farm and overall farm score of 103% or, A+ work. Congratulations on all of these achievements. We also went over your updated annual graphs and quarterly graphs and, saw that the last two quarters have had tremendous improvements. Those improvements being you are now weaning 36,000 pigs a quarter with an 86% farrowing rate, 16 total pigs born, 14 live born and, weaning a 12.3. These are some very impressive numbers. These are putting you in a position to be at 28 pigs weaned per female per year. Congratulations! Today’s Walk …show more content…

In the nursery, the nursery the pigs looked good I would just like to have feed in the feeders before the pigs get in there. I know they said we just weaned them in but I would like to have feed in the feeders before the pigs get in there, versus the other way around. When they get there, they are checking out their environment. Dropping the feed afterwards doesn’t help. They don’t really get that concept. Please be sure that any sows that are not eating are gotten up, so at least twice a day so they are urinating, defecating, getting a drink and then eating. I know that you’ve got people wearing their shoes into the shower, you have a break line, I would really like to see the shoes in the hallway not even making it into the shower room having a separate break there. Taking their shoes off stepping into the shower, taking their clothes off, showering in and going from there. In the gilt barn, I would like to see the curtain fixed so that it is working in tandem with the fans, so that when the fan kicks on they aren’t sucking the curtains so hard they don’t drop. The curtain should drop first, then the fan should kick on so that you can get proper ventilation air movement of 800 feet per minute air movement. I love this $300.00 Kestrell meter. You can find it at https://kestrelmeters.com/ that would highly recommend for fine tuning the ventilation in the finishers as well. There were just a few more mice,

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