Pig-Breeding
Commercial pig farming without big investments!
Foodstuff supply has always been one of the highest priority and the most profitable business. And pork plays one of the leading roles in this task.
Presently pork production is restricted by different ecological requirements obligatory for member countries of World Trade Organization. When a country joins WTO, it means that traditional pig farms won’t be able to compete with world producers in terms of environmental safety and cost value as permanent structures require heavy costs of electricity, labor and others.
The world is looking for alternative technologies of pig farming.
Alternative pig farming is:- profitable business
- energy saving technology
- environmentally safe production
- animal welfare
Alternative systems of pork production take into consideration human health, environmental control, well-being and natural habits of animals as well as production safety.
Why pig farming is profitable?
In terms of growth rate, fecundity, relatively short embryonic period, caloric content of meat, meat yield and high payback of feed pigs take first place in the meat market.
Growth rate:
Pigs reach commercial weight in the age of 180-200 days.
Multiple pregnancy and short gestation period:
Pig is a multiply-pregnancy animal. The
litter may contain in average 12–14 piglets. Gestation period is – 114–115 days. That means one sow can farrow 2.4 times or
give birth to 27-30 piglets per year.
High feed conversion rate:
Intensive fattening provides average daily weight gain of
800-850 grams per 3, 0-3, 2 kg of feed. Under intensive fattening the weight of 160-180 day old gilt reaches 100-110 kg.
High meat yield:
Meat yield of pigs is much higher than that of other farm animals. Meat
yield of baconer comes to 71-74%; sometimes it even reaches 80%.
Corporation Agro-Soyuz offers complete solution for arrangement of effective low-investment farm considering all requirements to pork production
Specialists of Corporation Agro-Soyuz:- adopted the technology of cold housing on deep straw bedding in hoops;
- reconstructed farrowing and fattening facility;
- developed the experimental model farm – commercial pig farm “Romanovskiy” with the capacity of 24-26 000 hybrid pigs per year.
Experimental commercial pig farm is the pork production enterprise with complete cycle where continuous system of intensive reproduction and cold housing for grow-finish stage is applied.
Cold housing ensures:- Construction cost reduction in comparison with permanent structures applied in traditional pig farming;
- Heat and light cost reduction;
- Improvement of health status of animals, reduction of veterinary associated costs;
- Fast growth rate;
- Reduction of fattening cost.
- The complex is designed for technology of continuous pork production with 7 day cycle. This technology ensures production of equal batches of pork of certain quality within specific periods.
Reproduction
Group housing of gestation sows
– group housing of gestation sows on deep
straw bedding in cold facility with a feeder on a concrete pad
– feed intake regulation by means of feed quality
changes
Cold housing of breeding boars
– boar barn with 20 individual stalls and straw bedding
Manual semen collection
– selection of productive semen fractions
– the clearest method of semen collection in terms of microbial contamination
– minimal quantity of equipment required
Laboratory control and semen quality evaluation
– evaluation of semen quality and dilution of
semen in artificial medium
Artificial insemination allows
– essential reduction of boar quantity
– enhancement
of insemination quality
– reduction of sow disease events
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Farrowing
Preparation for farrowing includes
– washing
–disinfection (treatment with bactericide
foam)
–drying
–hoof treatment
Farrow management
–Farrowing in individual stalls in controllable conditions
–Limited
movement of sow that increases survivability of piglets
– “All in, all out” principle of housing
– Computerized
microclimate control system
–Local heating of stalls with infrared lamp and heating floor mat
–Weaning after 28
days
Feeding management
–Sow is fed under the feed program. Within suckling period, before
and after farrowing the amount of food that a sow can eat is under the strict control.
Rooms with 50 stalls. 2,2 farrowings per
sow/year. Capacity of 1 stall: 10,5 sows/year |
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Nursery
–Double microclimate control system
–Automatic ventilation
–Boxes with under-floor heating for
weaned pigs
–Partially slatted floor
–Control of weaning process
–Feeding program ensures quick start and
shortening of fattening period
–Veterinary treatments become easier
–Reduction of manual work
– Free access to feed and
water
–Ab libitum feeding
–Mechanized distribution of dry concentrated feed
Rooms for 500–560 heads. Growing to 26–28
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Fattening
Cold housing in hoops ensures minimal investment and high efficiency of pork production
A hoop –is a light-weight arched construction (34 x 9 m) designed for cold housing of fattening pigs.
The capacity of fattening facility is – 250–270 heads. The facility has three sectors:
-rest area;
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dunging area;
– feeding area which is located on a concrete pad equipped with;
– 2 automatic group drinkers with
immersion heaters for 4 heads each;
– Bunker-type feeder ensuring twenty-four-hour availability of feed.
Rest and dunging areas are located on hard or clay flooring covered with straw – 1 kg of straw per pig per day.
Bedding is one of the key factors of successful animal farming in hoops. When it gets dirty, new bedding must be added to pig barns as required.
Hoops are not heated. Comfortable temperature at the level of a pig is maintained by fermentation of manure mixed with straw. Construction of hoops is convenient for all technological measures such as veterinary treatment, mechanical and pneumatic feed distribution, bedding change with special equipment, cleaning and washing of equipment and a hoop itself. This reduces manual labor and number of employees ensuring high quality of work.
Advantages of cold fattening in hoops:
– cold housing on deep straw bedding;
–
large group housing;
– twenty-four-hour access to water and feed;
– ad libitum feeding;
– freedom of
movement;
– conditions close to natural;
– natural ventilation.