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solution. “They may get skinny, but it has saved a lot of
pigs for us.” Feeser also dips teeth, gives iron shots and
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One of the several lots Feeser has for growing
constructed from heavy metal signs.
ear notches the first day of birth, unless the baby pigs are
really small. He gives the piglets Vh cc iron and % cc
Lincomix 50. Feeser injects this into the neck because you
Lancaster Fanwint, Saturday, May 12, 1979
out his pigs. The pens in the background are
are near the neck clipping teeth and also, there is “very
little run back”.
After farrowing, Feeser douches the sows with Uterine
Care, 25 cc per sow. This cleans them out, helps eliminate
hard udders, and “costs pennies”. He also injects the sows
with 2 cc oxytocin to “basically close up the vagina and
keep infection out.” As a preventative measure, he gives
the sows a shotof azeum and combiotic.
After two to three weeks (depending on the weather) in
the farrowing pen, the sow and her litter is moved to a 12
pen, 24 sow, capacity building. Two sows and their litters
are placed in each pen. After five weeks, the sows will be
moved out, and the piglets stay until they are 100 pounds.
When they reach this weight they are divided and moved
to another lot or building. Feeser said there is less stress
on the baby pigs and they are better off by moving the
sow, rather than her litter.
Last Fall, Feeser had his sows on self feeders and “they
had very high milk production.” He started hand feeding
the sows because they were getting loose and producing
too much milk.
Fceser_trys to wash down feeders and pens in his
finishinghouse between every crop of pigs. The house has
louvered doors to keep the pigs’ body heat in.
Sows are moved to an open sow unit with six. to eight
sows per lot. Feeser puts a boar between every couple
pens. “In case I miss a few females in heat, it helps,” be
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