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sean Downsizer Moderator
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gregotyn
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They look a good healthy bunch, Bodger. You could save a few piglets from the 'crush' if you had farrowing rails round the outside walls (screwed to the walls rather than the floor), as in the Solari type farrowing pens. They will save a high percentage of crushed little ones, but obviously not all. I had the mis-fortune to work with Solari houses as they are not pigman friendly, being so low at the back with a mother after you as you try to add creep feed and so on or adjust a lamp. However the farrowing rails were a definite saving in piglets lives at birth. On the college farm where I worked we also had pig arks, a remnant from a former outdoor enterprise, and as they were on concrete they were called "crarks"! These too had farrowing rails fitted inside, but the added advantage of a piglet creep area with access from outside so no involvement with mother when doing the various pig early operations, iron, teeth, ear notching and castration-all carried out at three days old-quick and easy ay that age rather than the traditional 8 weeks with the associated growth set back. I am not sure if castration is even carried out now, but I guess that iron injection, ear notching or tattooing is still done for pedigree purposes. |
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