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The Complete Pig Feeding Guide
The most important part of swine production is in knowing the correct way to feed pigs. Whether browsing through a piglet feeding guide or studying swine management techniques, pigs need a high energy diet that is low in fiber that contains ample protein. Pigs will consume enormous amounts of food quickly. To raise and maintain a healthy stock, maximize growth and reproduction, and increase ...
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Carthage System Upgrades Feeding Technology to Gestal
High Power Pork LLC., a 6000-head Carthage System sow farm, has recently undergone conversion from a conventional European-style electronic sow feeding system to the Gestal 3G free-access feeding system and is therefore announcing a group-housing retrofit with Jyga Technologies, manufacturer of Gestal. Since its establishment in 2010, the farm has used pen housing. The original open pen system ...
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5 things to do in an African swine fever outbreak
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has provided updated numbers on the number of animals affected by African Swine Fever (ASF) across the Asian continent. Following the outbreak, more than 5.7 million pigs have been culled in Vietnam alone, with millions of other animals having to be destroyed across other countries including the Philippines, China, Cambodia, Myanmar and ...
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Producer’s Profile: Henry Creek Farm
Owners: Doug, Kim & Olin Claassen Potwin, Kansas, USA Farm’s Features: 1,400 sows farm, 4 week batch farrowing 8,000 finishings places, 220 farrowing places and 15 open-housing gestation pens Diversified production including 600 to 700 feeder cattle, 3000 acres in croplands and 800 acres in pasture. They have their own feed mill. They utilize their own corn and soybeans to ...
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Swine Production Tips and Feeding Strategies to Dodge Temperature Variations : Beating the Heat in Farrowing!
The effects of heat stress on lactating sows has been studied by several research institutions worldwide. We can look at primiparous (first parity) or multi-parous sows but the results are similar (Williams, 2009) For this discussion, let us look at farrowing room environment conditions of 68°F (desired) vs. 77°F (hot). The period that should be most scrutinized is the ambient ...
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AB Vista: optimal recipes at the lowest cost price thanks to BESTMIX Feed Formulation 4.0 - Case Study
AB Vista is an animal nutrition technology company that provides products and technical services to the global animal nutrition industry. Since its foundation in 2004, AB Vista has grown to become a leading player in feed enzymes and one of the largest suppliers of yeast and natural betaine. The company focuses on four main subsectors: poultry, pigs, ruminants, and aquaculture. AB Vista is ...
By BESTMIX
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Vives University College students learn about BESTMIX Formulation as a Service - Case Study
Industries Feed Locations Europe Approximately 30 students at Vives University College are learning about BESTMIX feed formulation as part of their bachelor’s coursework in agro- and biotechnology. In the main subject of agriculture, feed formulation is a regular subject, while in the main subject of agro-industry it is an elective. Isabelle Degezelle, a lecturer in pig ...
By BESTMIX
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Seeing the Value in Uniform Market Animal Weight
Although average market pig weights have improved in recent decades thanks to lean growth and feed efficiency, recent Purdue Extension research reveals that producers still make market animal sorting mistakes that increase sort loss and reduce the number of pigs sent at optimal market weight for ...
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France: DryExactpro dry feeding system for 1,600 weaners - Case Study
Big Dutchman pig equipment and feeding systems are used on pig farms in more than 100 countries on all five continents. Naturally, this includes the "End of the Earth", and for good reason: French department no. 29, Finistère, derives its name from the Latin "Finis Terrae" and is the westernmost corner of Brittany, i.e. right where France drops into the Atlantic Ocean. It has much ...
By Big Dutchman
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A Bayesian network model for assessing natural estrogen fate and transport in a swine waste lagoon
Commercial swine waste lagoons are regarded as a major reservoir of natural estrogens, which have the potential to produce adverse physiological effects on exposed aquatic organisms and wildlife. However, there remains limited understanding of the complex mechanisms of physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the fate and transport of natural estrogens within an anaerobic swine ...
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