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How to reasonably arrange four-stage feeding and five-stage feeding to promote the interests of pig farms!

Release time:

Aug 15,2018


The four-stage feeding process is to divide the breeding pigs into empty pregnant and pregnant stages, and the commercial pigs into weaned piglets and growing and fattening stages. Respectively in the empty pregnant pig house, parturient nursing pig house (delivery room), weaning piglet breeding house and fattening pig house in partition feeding.

1. sows empty and pregnancy stage:

At this stage, there are empty pregnant sows and pregnant sows raised in small flocks, with 4 to 6 heads per flock, and there are also empty pregnant sows raised in single flock limit, while pregnant sows are raised in small flocks or empty pregnant sows are raised in small flocks, while pregnant sows are raised in single flock limit.

The sows bred in this way were raised in the empty pregnant area for 5 weeks and in the pregnant sow area for 11.5 weeks, and then transferred to the next stage of feeding.

2. sows lactation stage:

Sows bred in the same week enter the farrowing column of the farrowing sow house in the same batch one week in advance according to the expected date of delivery, where farrowing and lactation are completed. The lactation period is 4 to 5 weeks, and the sows are raised for 5 to 6 weeks at this stage. After weaning, the sows return to the empty pregnant sows to participate in the next breeding cycle. Weaned piglets are transferred to weaned piglet breeding houses.

3. weaning piglets breeding stage:

After weaning, the same batch of piglets are transferred to the weaned piglet breeding house and raised in small groups of piglets in the original litter or 2 litters on the high bed breeding fence. After 5 weeks of feeding here, the body weight reaches more than 20kg, and then the same batch is transferred to the growth and fattening pig house for fattening.

4. growth and fattening stage:

Piglets transferred from the nursery to the growth and fattening house are sold and listed in the same batch when they are kept for 15-16 weeks and weigh 90-110kg according to the feeding requirements of fattening pigs.

5. five stage feeding:

The five-stage feeding is to group empty pregnant sows and pregnant sows, group lactation sows and piglets, group piglets into nursery after weaning, group piglets into nursery after breeding, group piglets into nursery after breeding, and finally group fattening.

The five stages of pig herds were kept in empty pregnant sow houses, parturition nursing houses, piglet nursery houses, growing pig houses and fattening houses.

The difference between the five-stage feeding and the four-stage feeding is that the commercial pigs are subdivided into two stages of breeding and fattening, so that the commercial pigs are changed from the two stages of breeding and growth fattening of the four-stage feeding to the three stages of breeding, breeding and fattening of the five-stage feeding.

Five-stage feeding can ensure that pigs from weaning to the market in the whole process, to maximize the growth and development of feeding nutrition, environmental management of different needs, give full play to its growth potential, improve pig efficiency.


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