Posted by Dr. Steve Dudley on January 05 2006 13:20
Why Use Scale Barns?
- Lost Opportunity
- Labor Costs For Loading
- Pigs Stresses from Sorting
- Increased Slows and Deads
- Sorting Decreases Technology Options
- Paylean Options- None to Step Up
What Problems Exist with Scale Barns?
- Food Court and Water Court
- Decreased ADG, FE and ADFI
- Pig Flows
- Camper Pigs
- Sorting and Resorting
- Scale and Gating Costs per pig
- Potential For Suffocation Incidences
Scale Training Pigs
- First Week: All gates open in the barn
- Second Week: Feeder gates shut, one ways up
- Third Week: 30 days training with one ways down, scale gates switch every two hours, than grow out mode until marketing begins.
Time Schedules
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Day time scaling
- Grow out mode day time only- open one feeder gate and lock scale open
- All day scaling
- Leave feeder gate open by scale all the time
- Can get more alarms
Marketing Scaling
- Monday through Wednesday for the next week
- Day time schedule
- Push sort
- First week of marketing
- Every other week after that
