Gestation Stall Articles & Analysis
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A major concern for many producers who are evaluating the use of electronic sow feeding (ESF) in gestation barns is the impact on labor/staff and how a system that utilizes technology may increase either the time needed to manage group housing, or the quality of staff required to manage group housing, or both. As is the case with conventional European ESF’s, there is indeed a training ...
Not everyone will agree with my arguments in this article. However, I’m tired of hearing complaints about current sow mortality rates and general agreement that additional research is needed in gilt development; yet remain disappointed in the lack of tangible, practical strategies that producers can take home and implement at the ‘slat level’ to make meaningful changes in their ...
Since the Gestal 3G is designed to imitate a gestation stall, minimal to no training is needed. For Carthage and Gestal, the collaboration has created new opportunities to commercial research applications as well as a practical approach to the well-documented benefits of parity segregated feeding. ...