—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11,1978
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Expanded metal floors boost
weanling pig performance
DECATUR, Ind. - Ex
panded metal floors in swine
nurseries can help improve
the performance of weaning
pigs in both “continuous
use” and “all-in, all-out”
nursery systems.
Dr. Steve Haye, Master
Mix swine research
specialist, says that in
“fair” nursery en
vironments, the use of ex
panded metal floors can be
expected to increase final
nursery weights 6.0 to 6.5
pounds over slats and
concrete flooring.
Haye defines a fair nur
sery environment as a
nursery consisting of one
third slats, two-thirds solid
concrete flooring; solid
partitions; electric heat in
the floor; fair ventilation;
and good temperature
control.
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important
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“Since solid heated con
crete has always presented
problems, Master Mix
research decided to test the
use of expanded metal in the
fair environment,” Dr. Haye
says.
For the research studies,
expanded metal was in
stalled eight inches above
the slats and solid concrete
in one-half of the pens. The
tests were conducted in both
the “contmuons-use” nur
sery system and the “all-in,
all-out” nursery system.
“The continuous-use pigs
placed on, the expanded
metal actually weighed 6 per
cent less at the beginning of
the test compared to those on
solid concrete. They actually
gained 73 per cent more
weight during the 26-day
feeding period,” he says.
Haye adds that the
“continuous-use” nursery
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pigs on expanded metal
gained 1.8 pounds during the
first 12 days after weaning,
while the “continuous-use”
nursery pigs on the slats and
solid concrete lost an
average of 0.1 pounds during
the same post-weaning
- stress period.
“The ‘all-in, all-out’
nursery pigs on expanded
metal gained an average of
4.8 pounds during the first 13
days after weaning, while
the ‘all-in, all-out’ nursery
pigs on slats and concrete
gained an average of 3.2
pounds.
“For the entire test, the
‘all-in, all-out’ nursery pigs
on expanded metal gained 37
per cent more weight during
the 33-day test period than
did the ‘all-in, all-out’ nur
sery pigs on the slats and
solid concrete,” he explains.
Doctor Haye says that
although the per cent im
provement was less for the
“all-in, all-out” nursery
pigs, the pigs on expanded,
metal in both tests gained an
additional 6.0 to 6.5 pounds
during the nursery period.
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