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Sunday, June 29. Presenting
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Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bisback,
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Mr. and Mrs. Les Gardner,
with Brian Douglas. Godparents
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roy and Seaforth. Relatives of
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Zurich Citizens News, July 10, 1975 - 5
Important to keep
records with swine
Records are more than just a
tool to efficient swine product-
ion. They are an essential link
in raising hogs efficiently and
profitably, says an Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
swine specialist.
"Too many producers look
on record keeping as a time-
consuming extra in hog prod-
uction. In the long run,proper
record keeping can save a -prod-
ucer more time than it takes for
several recordings." emphasizes
R.B. Smelski of the Ministry's
Stratford office.
He recommends that even the
simplest record system --the
number of pigs marketed per sow
per year --would be useful.
Producers simply keep an inv-
entory of the number of sows
and the number of pigs market-
ed (or weaned) each month.
These numbers can then be
averaged over a yearly basis to
determine the number of pigs
per sow per year.
Individual identification of each
sow is also important for record
purposes. A pen record card is
kept with the sow during farrow-
ing. This information can be
transferred at weaning to a per-
manent summary card.
At each step of a swine oper-
AV
ation, weight can play an imp-
ortant role. The survival of
baby pigs is directly in proport-
ion to their birth weight; pigs
born under two pounds have
only a 42 percent chance of
survival, while pigs born over
three pounds will have an 82
percent chance.
"There is similar concern
about the growth rate of pigs
at their earliest stage," says
the specialist. "Some producers
claim to have a 50 -pound pig in
50 days after birth. However,
most have no idea of the growth
rate of their pigs at any stage or.
at the most, only in the except-
ional cases."
xcept-ionalcases."
Another area to be considered
for record keeping is feed cons-
umption. Feed is the single most
costly portion of hog production,
requiring 75 percent of a swine
producer's overhead. Monitoring
feed consumption is a more time-
consuming task, but with increas-
ing costs, such records will help
producers improve feed effic-
iency.
Assistance with the different
record-keeping systems is avail-
able from offices of the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
However, as Mr. Smelski points
out, now is the time to begin --
not tomorrow.
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