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Gestal Quattro
2017-06-27 21:31:00| National Hog Farmer
Photo: Gestal’s Hyatt Frobose, right, explains to panel members (left to right) Aaron Lower and Pat Thome, the cost savings producers may realize by using the Gestal Quattro lactating sow feeding system. Managing a lactating sow’s diet has proven to be a tricky thing, as has maintaining an ideal piglet environment. The Gestal Quattro attempts to tackle both issues in one system. The patent-pending Quattro is an automated feeding system which simultaneously manages and controls the piglets’ environmental temperature for each crate independently, and allows individualized feed blending of multiple diets in lactation. Hyatt Frobose, Gestal U.S. territory manager and swine nutrition specialist, says the Quattro is the fifth-generation of the company’s lactation feeding systems adding new technologies and capabilities to previous generations. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel,” he says, “we have a system that’s wireless, a system that’s waterproof, and can withstand the dust and pressure washing in a barn environment, so we kept the base model the same.” Joseph Darrington, New Product Tour panelist, thinks it’s nice to be able to use the same outlet for the feeding system and the heat lamp, “putting it in series like that, I think that’s smart.” Aaron Lower, veterinarian on the panel says the wiring “seems like it should be easy, but in a farrowing barn it can be tricky.”
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