Chapter 1- Swine Industry Overview Flashcards
Recite the hog zoological scheme
Kingdom animalia
Phylum chordata
Class mammalia
Order artiodactyla
Family Suidae
Genus sus
Species scrofa or vittatus
Subspecies domesticus
A wild hog of continental europe
Sus scrofa
East indian pig contributed to domestic swine.
Sus vittatus
What are the advantages of swine production
Swine use concentrates well and our efficient converters of food into human food
Swine are prolific animals
Swine enterprise requires small investment compared to cattle and carabao
Pigs can be sold or convert into cash anytime after weaning
Salvage values of culled sows, boars and stags are high
Swine have high dressing percentage compared to other farm animals
Pork is traditionally accepted as table meat
Top producing countries with their respective a global production and total production
China 50% 57.94 million metric tons
European union 18% 20.83 million metric tons
United states 11% 12.39 million metric tons
Brazil 4% 4.45 million metric tons
Russia 3% 4 million metric tons
Vietnam 3% 3.55 million metric tons
Canada 2% 2.11 million metric tons
Mexico 1% 1.56 million metric tons
South korea 1% 1.44 million metric tons
Japan 1% 1.29 million metric tons
Philippines 0.9% 1.05 million metric tons
Recite the disadvantages of swine production
•Swine are subject to heavy losses due to diseases and parasites
•Feed adulteration and supply are critical problems for swine production
•Wide variation in the prices of market hugs feeds as well as drugs and medicine for swine
•Labor requirements during the farrowing season is relatively high
•The characteristic odor coming from any swine enterprise is highly objectionable to practically everybody except those engage in production
Starts with pregnancy of sows or gilt to produce pigs or weanlings which he grows until slaughter weight is achieved
Farrow to finish operation
Producer starts with a pregnant guilt or south to produce pigs or willings which are sold to other racers who grow them until the marketable weight is achieved
Farrow to feeder operation
Starts with pregnant sow or gilt to produce breeders stocks like junior boars and replacement gilts
Farrow to breeder operation
Swine racers starts with feeder or weanlings and carries them to slaughter weight of 80 to 95 kg
Growing to finishing enterprise
Slaughter weight
80 to 95 kg
Profit in growing-finishing enterprise operation can be influenced by
•Availability and continuous supply of good quality feeder pigs
•Cost of feeds and feeder pigs
•The capacity of the operator and avoiding losses from diseases pest and other animal health hazard
•The price which the buyers are willing to pay for the finished hugs
Elaborate the advantages of growing to finishing enterprise
•Although the capital requirements are high the rate of capital turnover is relatively faster than the sow herd enterprise
•The period from startup to the first paycheck is only about 4 months compared to about 1 year in the sow herd enterprise
•Since the producer start with 10 to 15 kg he avoids the very demanding management problems associated with breeding sows and managing the newborn piglets
Elaborate the disadvantage of growing finishing enterprise
The penalty for slow growth is relatively high because of the difficulty of predicting accurately the performance of the feeder pigs especially when they are assembled from farms with substandard management
This operation starts with a young boar which the producer grows and trains to breeder age. The boar is used to breed guilts or sows in the community for a fee the fee may be in cash or in kind which ever is acceptable to the customer.
Boar for hire enterprise
Profitability of boar for hire enterprise
•Quality of the boar
•Number and quality of the sows served by the boar
•Willingness of the customer to use the boar and to pay the breeding fee
•Capacity of the operator to avoid losses from mechanical injuries and diseases
Advantages of boar for hire enterprise
•Can be started with relatively small capital and the return in investment comes quickly
•It may serve as a supplementary or primary source of income by a rural family
•It helps in improving the quality of pigs produced by the farmers within the service area of the boar
Disadvantages of boar for hire enterprise
•The penalty for halting operation due to possible disease problems may be heavy because of frequent contact with sows and gilts from different farm holdings
•if the operator becomes too careless in managing the enterprise he can ruin those swine industry in the community because of the great capacity of the boar and disease transmission especially the common diseases of reproduction
percent of world pork consumption have from 1997 to 2005
27%
Total global for consumption in year 2005
At over 93 metric tons
What is the meat of choice in worldwide and offers opportunities for both us pork producers and foreign pork producer to expand international sales
Pork
The value of US pork expert in 2005 was ______ or _______ per US hog slaughtered
$2.28 billion dollars or $22.01
What rank is the philippine in swine producing countries
11th
Is a huge business in terms of livestocks in the philippines
Swine industry
