Flooring For Weaned Pigs

Per boar 6 8 sqm.

Flooring for weaned pigs.

Comfort clean flexible keeping your pigs comfortable and clean is the primary objective of all farmweld sow and pig flooring products. There is a wide range of slats of various sizes and surfaces. The new premier nursery floor has a bright lime green color for easy scour detection of pigs up to 120 pounds. Excelerator nursery floor is a high impact virgin polypropylene slat for pigs up to 75 pounds.

Made of high quality plastic triangular rod and cast iron. Aco funki offers a complete flooring program for pig barns. Nooyen weaning products piglets are particularly sensitive immediately after weaning. In a high quality and easy to clean shed you can ease this transition which helps you to prevent a teat dip.

Per piglet 0 3 0 5 sqm. Tests conducted by double l show that producers using the 4 x 6 wean to finish pig mat can use 36 less energy to maintain the pig s body temperature 105 degrees versus a pig lying on a concrete floor. Wean to finish from weaning to slaughter in a same phase improves animal health because stress caused by the moving to the finishing facilities is. Growket modular flooring systems for farrowing and weaning are combined to adapt to different pen designs.

The advantage nursery floor is for pigs up to 150 pounds and has 1 4 gap perimeter that is easy to power wash clean. For pig welfare and health flooring must be smooth but not slippery and designed constructed and maintained so as not to cause injury or suffering to pigs standing or bedding on it. Depending on the individual wishes of the pig farmer nooyen offers supercoated plastic tri bar or tri cast slats or a combination possibly also with a concrete section. Six week old pigs already weaned can be bought by mail.

Our plastic and cast iron slats have been on the market for 30 years and they are under constant development and optimization. Flooring must be suitable for the size and weight of pigs and where no bedding is provided must form a rigid even and stable surface. By feeding surplus garden vegetables table scraps and some grain they ll grow up to 200 pounds in 20 weeks. Thermal comfort for little pigs in cold wean to finish barn.

The floor should be sloping away to the rear to facilitate cleaning with water. A flat solid floor is usually made from cement but not polished to avoid slipping or from hard soil. They are comfortable and hygienic achieving the proper disposal of slurry. Using a double layer of mats in the center position raises the sow for easier access to teats for nursing.