Animal Production Facilities Flashcards
Are important infrastructure to facilitate management and good health and efficient production
Farm Production Facilities
Made primarily for the comfort of animals
Farm Production Facilities
Enumerate the 3 common reasons for inappropriate or improper animal production facilities
- Lack of knowledge
- Lack of emphasis in their importance/effects in animal raising
- Cost
What are the 10 factors to consider for appropriate animal farm housing/infrastructure
- Type of animals to be raised (breed, age, purpose)
- Scale and type of operation
- Space requirements
- Kind of equipment/facilities
- Farm location
- Environmental requirements
- Feed storage and handling
- Amount of resources
- Opportunities for expansion and development
- Government laws and regulations that apply to animal production
Enumerate the 6 roofing designs
- Shed
- Gable
- Monitor
- Gambrel
- Gothic
- Half monitor
Enumerate the 4 flooring types
- Solid
- Slatted
- Litter
- Slat-litter
What are the 2 cattle housing and facilities
- Fences
- Corrals
Enumerate other cattle production facilities
- Feed bins, troughs
- Silos
- Foot bath
- Livestock scale
- Dipping vat
Enumerate the 4 types of housing
- Loose housing
- Stall barns
- Neonatal calves
- Pens for older calves
What are the 2 milking parlor
- Herring bone (fishbone)
- Rotary
Enumerate the 6 swine housing and equipment
- Farrowing pen
- Nursery
- Growing pens
- Gestating pens
- Feeders, waterers
- Castrating device
It is important to get the balance of welfare for the sow and piglet. Sows are quite clumsy and often lie on their piglets.
Maternity Ward
In this pen the sow can move about and has access to straw to make a nest
A freedom pen
In this pen the sow can get up and eat and drink but it offers more safety for the piglets
Traditional farrowing pens
1700 breeding sows in this unit
Indoor breeding unit
In this unit every week 72 sows are farrowed
The sows look after their piglets until they are 28 days old
Indoor breeding unit
All the animals in this unit are kept inside in straw yards until they give birth
Indoor breeding unit
What is the only country to have pigs (outdoor breeding unit) on a large scale
England