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Is Farrowing Crate Design a Constraint to Weaning Average?

2013-06-10 21:01:00| National Hog Farmer

By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE. Last week, we attended an open house of a new, 6,000-sow farm equipped with electronic sow feeding (ESF) in large gestation pens. A tour of one of the farrowing rooms revealed 6 x 8-ft. farrowing crates with cast iron floors in the sow area and woven wire flooring in the pigs creep area. Crates also had rubber mats with heat lamps on both sides. read more

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