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Swine farm Management Plan

Housing/ Facility Types

Housing/ Facitity Types

  • Pasture- no climate controled buildings
  • Confinement-
  • Cold- open on one or more sides

-mainly used fo finishing hogs

  • Warm- controled enviornment

- mainly used for breeding, farrowing, and piglets

Handing/ Restraint Equipment

Handling/ Restraint Equipment

1. Pig handling boards

2. Paddles

3. Trapping crates

4. Snare/ Snubbing rope

5. Carcass Carts

6. Loading Chute

7. Rattle Can

8. Gestation Crate

9. Farrowing Crates

Preventative Maitenance Methods

Preventative Maintenance Methods

  • Check for clogged feeder drop and feed tube
  • Clean up feed spills to reduce rodents and pit blockage
  • Check ventilation control for proper settings
  • Ensure cool-cell pads dry daily to prevent algae and mineral growth
  • Monitor freeboard levels in lagoons and pits
  • Fans are often one of the most neglected machines on the swine farm.Be sure to inspect blades, belts and pullies regularly.

Vaccinations

Vaccinations Commonly Used

Bacterial Vaccines:

  • Colibacillosis
  • Mycoplasmal pneumonia
  • Porcine proliferative enteritis
  • Salmonellosis

Anitviral Vaccinations:

  • Porcine parvovirus
  • Pseudorabies
  • Porcine circovirus
  • Porcine epidemic diarrhea
  • Influenza

Parisite Control Methods

Parisite Control methods

  • Prompt removal of feces from the pig’s environment will lessen the chances of a pig re-infesting itself with parasites
  • Fecal analysis can reveal the types and severity of parasite infestation, which, in turn, will influence the decision about which, if any, deworming medication should be used
  • Reduce the risk of parasite infection of your market hog by maintaining a clean environment, providing a balanced diet, minimizing stress, and housing pigs together according to age.

Sanitation & Biosecurity Protocols

Sanitiation & Biosecurity protocols

Biosecurity can be defined as the application of measures aimed to reduce the probability of introduction and spread of pathogens .

  • Set a list of health requirements for the sources of gilts. This list must classify diseases based on the risk they pose to the farm and must indicate which verification tests are to be performed
  • Quarantines must be designed as biocontention units; namely, they must be designed to avoid the spillover of any undesired pathogen brought by the incoming animals.
  • Air filtration is proven to prevent pathogen introduction in high density areas The use of HEPA air filters in the windows or ventilation inlets reduces the entrance of pathogens
  • Essential measure to restrict visitors and vehicles in the farm is to establish a clear delimitation of clean and dirty areas
  • A perimeter fence with a permanently closed door that can only be opened from inside the farm is the main division between “inside” and “outside”

identification System Used

Identification Systems

1. Eartags

2. Tattoos

3. Freeze Branding

Feeding & Watering Equipment and Pracitces

Feeding & watering equipmennt

Two types of feeding methods:

  • Automatic
  • Hand Feed

Hand Feed/ non-automatic

  • requires more in labor costs

Automatic Feeders

  • expensive to put in
  • save on labor
  • saves money in the long run

Feeding & Watering Practices

Swine are fed grain-based rations with ground corn as the energy source and soybean meal as the high quality protein source. They also have water availble to them all though the days.

Waste Management

Waste management

Liquid/Solid Waste:

  • Swine farms tend to use lagoons to hold any waste and they then spray said menure water on soil and plants as fertilizer

Mortality Management:

There are many methods for disposing of swine mortalities such as

  • Inceneration
  • Composting
  • Rendering- disposal of mortalities by processing into fat and protein products through physical and chemical transformation

Waste Management

Insect Management:

Pests of concern to the hog producer include horse flies, deer flies, stable flies, house flies, mange/ itch mites

- Insecticides can play an important role in integrated fly management programs.

- Chemical control options include space sprays, baits, larvicides, residual premise sprays, and whole-animal spray

-Removing and spreading fly breeding materials weekly helps to break the cycle

-Sticky ribbons, especially the giant ones, are very effective for managing small

to moderate fly populations (must be changed every 1-2 weeks)

Odor Management:

-Keep animals clean and dry

-Remove menure buildup from floors

-Use wet feeding (3:1 water to feed ratio) to reduce odors from 23% to 31% by reducing water and feed spillage.

-Remove mortalities from the site to a rendering facility within 24 hours

Agitate and pump when favorable wind conditions exist (brisk breeze blowing away from neighbors).

Waste Management

BMP's:

- Buffers- distances from streams, homes, or property lines

- Costal Bermuda Grass- removes high amounts of nutrients from the soil as well as controls erosion

Emergency Management:

  • Fires- have fire escape plans and plan out what to do with your pigs
  • Power Outages- have backup generators and be sure they are properly maintained
  • Natural Disaster (tornado, hurricane, flood)-have a binder with plans for any type of emergency you can think to prevent as many mortalities as possible.
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