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What is more realistic?
A. Farm production facilities are made primarily for the comfort of Animals
B. Farm production Facilities are made primarily for the comfort and efficiency of the operator.
B.
3 reasons for improper animal production facilities.
Lack of knowledge
Lack of emphasis of their importance in animal raising
Cost
10 factors for an appropriate animal farm production infrastructure
- Type of animals to raise (breed, age, purpose)
- Scale and type of operation
- Space requirements
- Kind of equipment
- Farm location
- Envi requirements
- Feed storage and handling
- Amt. of resources
- Opportunities for expansion and development
- Government laws and regulations that apple to animal production
Name the 4 flooring types
Solid
Slatted
Litter
Slat-Litter
Types of equipment seen at a production facility:
A. Feed bins, troughs, foot bath, silos, livestock scale, dipping vat
B. Feed bowls, troughs, bathtubs, weighing scale, water vat
A.
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Types of housing:
L_o_se H_ _ in _
Loose Housing
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Types of housing:
S_all _a_ns
Stall barns
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Types of housing:
Ne_n_tal Ca_ _es
Neonatal Calves
This is a type of housing similar to neonatal calves but for more mature cows.
Pens for older calves
This milking parlor is slanted/ V-shaped. Also known as “fishbone”.
Herringbone
This type of milking parlor is circular.
Rotary
This type of housing is made for swine/pigs.
Farrowing pen.
This is a housing made for a sow (adult female pig) and her piglets.
Maternity ward
What is a weaned piglet?
A piglet that no longer relies on the sow’s/mother’s milk but instead relies on solid food.
This is where newly weaned piglets are moved to.
Nursery
Following the nursery, pigs are moved to a new housing to accommodate their continued growth. What is this new housing?
Growing pens.
An outdoor breeding unit usually has 1,700 breeding sows. T/F
False. It is the indoor unit that usually has 1,700 sows.
In these indoor breeding units, Sows look after their piglets until they are _ _ days old.
28 days.
Every week, _ _ sows are farrowed (give birth).
72 weeks.
This country is the only country to have pigs on a scale large enough for an outdoor breeding unit. (40% of their pig farms are outdoors.)
England.