Pig breeding is a fairly profitable and cost-effective industry of modern animal husbandry, which is actively developing in our day. From what conditions are animals, largely the benefit depends on them. In this article, we will consider the most popular methods for the content of pigs, which are practiced in modern agriculture.
Walking method of pig breeding
This system is characterized by the following features and features:
- In warm summer days, animals are not indoors, but at special open-air sites. This allows individuals to actively move around the territory of the walking, to give a sufficient amount of natural solar irradiation and fresh air.
- The flowing platform is a plot of land, as a rule, closely adjacent to the pig farm. This territory is equipped with feeders and drinking for animals. Since bright and almost deprived of the fur skin of pigs are not designed for a long stay under the sun, such platforms are equipped with canopies or roofs.
- The rules for the content of pigs imply that animals of almost any technological purpose can be located on the territory of the walking area, except for newborn piglets and sowing sows.
- Machine individuals from the room under the open sky are beginning in the middle or late spring, when the constant ambient temperature reaches at least 15 ° C. The flowing period ends with the onset of the first frosts. The reason for the transfer of animals back to the pigsty is the onset of the night, as well as unfavorable weather: strong wind, rain or heat above 25 ° C.
- This method of containing pigs is more often used in small farms with a few livestock. In an industrial scale, the flowing system does not have the desired profitability.
The method in question can be divided into three main types:
- The regulatory system involves finding animals on the will in a strictly defined time, which depends on the set time mode.
- Free-winning content type implies that pigs can go to the site and return back to the room when it is whatever.
- The non-elected and flowing method is relevant for semi-open-type pig-breeds that are most common in southern latitudes. With such a system of content, the livestock can use the walking at any time of the day year-round.
It should be noted that tribal practices of a walk or any physical activity are extremely important. If the boat does not move at least half an hour daily, the muscles of the legs will weaken it, which will lead to a set of animals of excessive mass and loss of their value in breeding work.
Summer-camp content of pigs
This method of pig breeding is divided into 3 types:
- Stall-paste method. It implies that during the summer period, animals are on the pasture, and in the remaining seasons they are placed in half-open pigbies.
- Ceper grazing option. To implement this method, farmers build special mobile structures that are transported from place to place as pigs eat grass on the selected territory.
- The camp-the-uncomfortable system takes place when individuals for the summer are placed in special camps without kicking them on the pasture. Feeding the livestock is carried out at the expense of brilliance and other suitable food.
The content of animals in summer camps makes it possible with small financial costs to get good benefits. This method leads to the active birth of young, it allows you to save on the feed, strengthens the health of pigs, and also allows you to easily prepare the basic premises for the winter. With this system of animal content, some points should be taken into account:
- It is best to have a camp of approximately 200 meters from the pig farm, but no further than 500 m - such a distance will help to easily maintain the vital activity of the pen. The optimal placement site is the land near the reservoir, a forest array, a small grove.
- The territory with pigs should have a good fence, other economic buildings are located separately.
- The livelihood of the camp is maintained in closed mode. It is assumed to be timely conducting various sanitary and hygienic and preventive measures.
- For sowing sows create special designs. It can be stationary camps consisting of a pen and a canopy closed from all sides of the rain and wind. Sometimes there are mobile houses or small chalas, located under waterproof shelter.
- For animals, the remaining technological groups of the camp are simpler structures that include canopy from the sun and a fenced territory for walking.
- If there are idle and repair individuals in the camp, it should be equipped with special premises for tribal boars.
- For effective content and feeding pigs near them, pastures with bean and cereal cultures should be.
The translation of the livestock from the pasture stall must be carried out gradually, so that animals can be painlessly adapted and not suffered from problems with the gastrointestinal tract. For this, a week before the percentage of pigs, the field should give them a small amount of green feed, and also to lift them on the will twice a day: in the morning and in the evening at least 3 hours.
Cheerful technologies for pigs
This system is often used in large pig farms and its features are as follows:
- A uncomfortable way is the most economically beneficial, so it is used to grow a large number of heads for sale. Since pigs are constantly contained in the same room, there is no need to spend extra money on the equipment of the walking and maintain the necessary conditions in them.
- Despite the benefits, such a technique reflects the negativeness of animal stability to stress and diseases, as well as their physical condition. To avoid such problems, you should pay a lot of attention to the right feeding and care for individuals.
- The conditions for the content of pigs in the premises must be as comfortable as possible. Air humidity in the pigsty should be maintained at 40-60%. The temperature standards for animals on fattening are 15-20 ° C, for boars and idle individuals, this indicator should be within 14-19 ° C, the air temperature should be at least 20-22 ° C for the damp, and for newborns The piglets are the perfect indicator - 30 ° C. In the premises it is necessary to provide good lighting and sewer for outflows.
- If pigs are contained by groups, in order to avoid dissemination of diseases, all sanitary and hygienic measures must be observed. They include quarantine for all newcomers, their mandatory vaccination, cleaning the premises at least every 2 weeks, as well as the annual disinfection of the pigsty.
- Feed the livestock you need both liquid and dry food, always observing the correct proportions. Clean water in drinkings is required.
Cell method of pigs
On large pig farms, animals contain in special cells installed in several levels. Such a system allows the most efficient to use the area available in the household. Each design accommodates no more than 3 individuals, the floor in such cells has a slope, which allows excrement and residues to drain in the special ditch provided for this. This method contributes to the development of an unfavorable microclimate in pigsty, to regulate which is better with the help of automated systems.
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