—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 20,1971
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Swine Management Reviewed by _ „
good bleeding schedule.” he ed by hot weather for about f gl . should not g 0 after the ed up with too much calciun
said days aftei breeding * smoothest one but the most the feed and lost some of
He warned faimeis never to Cold weather doesn’t seem to „ orous an( j active one. The animals
use a boar befue it is eight affect either sows 01 hoars In * . should weJ gh 250 pounds During, lactation the c
months old the winter, all the breeding “ gix m(mths Wl th not more should be about 15 per cent \
He also emphasized the im- sl ' o< '| c Wlll n f a diy piace out an j mches of back fat tein.
poitance of keeping breeding of the wind, Younkm sai ctatme that not veiy much is Scouring in little pigs
stock cool dining hot weather. He advised selecting gilts on s t feeds t 0 £i rs t few days is from “soi
Boars should have a wood lot the basis of good motheis He Known a - n noted the thing in the farrowing hous
where they can wallow If a warned against picking stuctly use;toi s ,’ . listened to The scours shouldn’t cone
wood lot is not available, they on the basis of size and scale case o f ne iid and made the producer unless the dr
should be spiayed The larger animals may be late . th feed j ie was (Continued on Page 10)
Sows are paiticularly affect- maturing additions —-
Swire produceis have their
biggest problems with “man
agement of the held thiough
the fallowing facilities,” ac
cording to Dwight Younkin,
Penn State livestock Extension
specialist
Speaking on “Managing the
Swine Herd” at the Farm and
Home Center this week, Youn
kin explained that scheduling
of the animals through the far
rowing facilities accounts for
much of the difficulties “No
thing will leplace having a
break in the farrowing house”
lather than having overlapping
fai rowing schedules, Younkin
emphasized
The problem of scheduling
becomes paiticularly critical
with an operation which has
Dwight Younkin
Discussing Swine
six or more farrowings a year
and there are some problems
even with four farrowings, he
said.
He noted that four farrow
ings a year give the faimer
about two and one half months
to get the animals out of the
building. Many farmers can
manage this
But when they go to six times
a year and have only one and
one half months something of
ten happens to the fan owing
schedule and this results in a
continuous farrowing
The easiest system to manage
is a farrowing to finish system
in the same building on a twice
a year schedule Tljis gives five
and a half months to finish A
small additional finishing faci
lity is needed
But a fai rowing to finish sys
tem is now too expensive for
many farmers, Younkin said
If remodeling 01 rebuilding is
anticipated, Younkin suggested
the use of larger pens about
five to five and a half feet
wide by 12 feet long to en
able leaving the pigs there long
ei Theie aie fewei pioblems
with moving the larger pigs, he
explained
Younkin suggested faimeis
use a system of two fallowing
buildings and one finishing
building, using altei nating
four-month fan owing schedules
in each of the two farrowing
buildings This enables thiee
and a half months between far-
rowings in each building and
has the advantage of putting
lower stress on the animals and
providing greatei flexibility
with scheduling
Care of Breeding Stock
Another very important
phase of swine management in
volves the boar With 20 sows,
the farmer can possibly get by
with two boats but he is “likely
to have trouble ” Thei e should
be three boai s, he said
If faimeis v/ant to accom
plish bleeding within thiee
days even moie boais aie need
ed “You can’t have too many
boais if you want to keep on a
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